Hi all, I seem to be having trouble with the echo command, I have never programmed in PHP and am starting to learn!

What I want to do is write the following:

Hello Mark, is your date of birth 05/07/1977 correct?

The php code as follows:

echo "Hello " & $_POST["fname"] & ", is your date of birth " & $_POST["age"] & " correct?"

I get this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING

Shouldn't the age variable be called dob?
The format of your dates is also unusual for PHP.

Is the issue got something to do with the fact that you're concatenating a date (or number) to a string..?
If you remove the age (/dob) value, does it work?

" & ' have a special meaning in PHP (forget where I saw that)
also the string concatenation character is the full stop "."
I'd try

PHP string concatenation

Hi,

Thank you very much for your help.

I find the smallest things that throw you out after coming from a microsoft world to PHP.

I wonder what other simple but complicated things I will find along my PHP journey!

Date was just an example, thanks so much for your reply. It works a charm.