Concatenation Operators
The concatenation operator is used to put two string values together, in other words, it’s used to combine two string values.
We’ll start by making two variables:
<?php
$text1 = "Hi there!";
$text2 = "My name is Owen!";
?>
We’ll then concatenate both string variables together like so:
<?php
$text1 = "Hi there!";
$text2 = "My name is Owen!";
echo $text1 . " " . $text2;
?>
The ‘.’ is the key. The (” “) in the middle of both variables is just a space between the two.
Here’s the output of the code above:
Hi there! My name is Owen!
Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen,