Setting PHP Variable to a combination of text and another variables value

I am trying to set a variable in PHP to a concatinated version of
another variable with some text

Current I know that both of these two line work.
$label1=$row_rsPayments['first_name']
$label1="is the first name"

But really what I want to be stored in label one is the value of the
persons name with "is the first name" after it. I tried joining it
like I would in other languages with a & but that didnt work.


What is proper syntax to join these two values?

tdmailbox@yahoo.com (Rich) wrote in message news:<22e731d7.0406130944.334b63e5@posting.google. com>...
> I am trying to set a variable in PHP to a concatinated version of
> another variable with some text
>
> Current I know that both of these two line work.
> $label1=$row_rsPayments['first_name']
> $label1="is the first name"
>
> But really what I want to be stored in label one is the value of the
> persons name with "is the first name" after it. I tried joining it
> like I would in other languages with a & but that didnt work.
>
>
> What is proper syntax to join these two values?

To concatenate two variables (if they are not strings they will be
converted to strings when you concatenate them) use a period (.)

$label1 = $row_rsPayments['first_name'] ;
$label1 .= " is the first name";

or

$label1=$row_rsPayments['first_name'] . " is the first name.";


Notice on the second line the .= can be used or in the second example
you can just string them together.

In general, use this form:
$variablex = $variable1 . $variable2 . " something else " . $variable3
.. "<br>\n";

I hope that helps.