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PHP PHP Arrays and Control Structures PHP Arrays Multidimensional Arrays

Olli Luotonen
Olli Luotonen
5,123 Points
Posted by Olli Luotonen
Olli Luotonen
5,123 Points

Problem with step 3, calling multidimensional values

I'm having trouble with step3 where i should call for name/email for each user;

I can produce the required results in workspace with

<?php //edit this array $contacts = array( array('name' => 'Alena Holligan', 'email' => 'alena.holligan@teamtreehouse.com'), array('name' => 'Dave McFarland', 'email' => 'dave.mcfarland@teamtreehouse.com'), array('name' => 'Treasure Porth', 'email' => 'treasure.porth@teamtreehouse.com'), array('name' => 'Andrew Chalkley', 'email' => 'andrew.chalkley@teamtreehouse.com') );

var_dump($contacts); echo $contacts[0]["name"];

where echo produces Alena Holligan as required but if i try to use same input in the step 3, the second brackets don't get identified (whited) for some reason; what am i doing wrong here? i first though it was because of the already existing double quotes but using echo $contacts[0]['name'] does not provide closing of 2nd brackets either.

index.php 
<?php
//edit this array
$contacts = array(
  array('name' => 'Alena Holligan', 'email' => 'alena.holligan@teamtreehouse.com'), 
  array('name' => 'Dave McFarland', 'email' => 'dave.mcfarland@teamtreehouse.com'), 
  array('name' => 'Treasure Porth', 'email' => 'treasure.porth@teamtreehouse.com'), 
  array('name' => 'Andrew Chalkley', 'email' => 'andrew.chalkley@teamtreehouse.com')
);

echo "<ul>\n";
//$contacts[0] will return 'Alena Holligan' in our simple array of names.
echo "<li>$contacts[0][name] : $contacts[0][email]</li>\n";
echo "<li>$contacts[1][name] : $contacts[1][email]</li>\n";
echo "<li>$contacts[2][name] : $contacts[2][email]</li>\n";
echo "<li>$contacts[3][name] : $contacts[3][email]</li>\n";
echo "</ul>\n";
Amirhossein Khademoulmeleh
Amirhossein Khademoulmeleh
2,941 Points
Amirhossein Khademoulmeleh
Amirhossein Khademoulmeleh
2,941 Points

i am having the exact same problem, according to the web $contacts[0][0] : $contacts[0][1] should work but its not working here!!!