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PHP Build a Basic PHP Website (2018) Listing and Sorting Inventory Items Associative Arrays

Posted by William Kaltz-Hall
William Kaltz-Hall
1,953 Points

Associative arrays challenge task 7 of 7 -- can't complete challenge, correct code is not detected.

Check work doesn't see <?php echo $movie['director'] ?> within the td element. Code as follows:

<?php

$movie = array( 'title' => 'The Empire Strikes Back', 'year' => 1980, 'director' => "Irvin Kershner", 'imdb_rating' => 8.8, 'imdb_ranking' => 11 ); ?>

<h1><?php echo $movie['title'] . $movie['year']?></h1>

<table> <tr> <th>Director</th> <td><?php echo $movie['director'] ?> </td> </tr> <tr> <th>IMDB Rating</th> <td><?php echo $movie['imdb_rating'] ?></td> </tr> <tr> <th>IMDB Ranking</th> <td><?php echo $movie['imdb_ranking'] ?></td> </tr> </table>

5 Answers

jcorum
jcorum
71,830 Points

William, here's the whole thing:

<?php
$movie = array( 
    'title' => 'The Empire Strikes Back', 
    'year' => 1980, 
    'director' => "Irvin Kershner", 
    'imdb_rating' => 8.8, 
    'imdb_ranking' => 11 
); 
?>
<h1><?php echo $movie["title"]; ?> <?php echo $movie["year"]; ?></h1>

<table>
  <tr>
    <th>Director</th>
    <td><?php echo $movie["director"]; ?></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <th>IMDB Rating</th>
    <td><?php echo $movie["imdb_rating"]; ?></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <th>IMDB Ranking</th>
    <td><?php echo $movie["imdb_ranking"]; ?></td>
  </tr>
</table>
jcorum
jcorum
71,830 Points
jcorum
jcorum
71,830 Points

William, two problems. First, this line:

<h1><?php echo $movie['title'] . echo $movie['year']?></h1>

needs to look like this:

<h1><?php echo $movie["title"]; ?> <?php echo $movie["year"]; ?></h1>

I.e., the editor asked for two php statements. And this line:

    <td><?php echo $movie['director'] ?> </td>

needs to look like this:

    <td><?php echo $movie["director"]; ?></td>

Note that the editor doesn't like the missing semi-colon.

William Kaltz-Hall
William Kaltz-Hall
1,953 Points
William Kaltz-Hall
William Kaltz-Hall
1,953 Points

Thanks for your help, unfortunately after the above changes, I'm still getting the same message. Tried in both Firefox and Chrome.

William Kaltz-Hall
William Kaltz-Hall
1,953 Points
William Kaltz-Hall
William Kaltz-Hall
1,953 Points

Not sure if it was fixed or what - but after pasting in the code from above it let me complete the challenge. I'm comparing what I had before with the above code and I can't find any difference so who knows. Thanks much for your help sir.

osvaldo gonzalez
osvaldo gonzalez
2,167 Points
osvaldo gonzalez
osvaldo gonzalez
2,167 Points

<?php $movie = array ( 'title' => 'The Empire Strikes Back', 'year' => '1980', 'director' => 'Irvin Kershner', 'imdb_rating' => 8.8 , 'imdb_ranking' => 11); ?>

<h1><?php echo $movie['title']; ?>(<?php echo $movie['year']; ?>) </h1>

<table> <tr> <th>Director</th> <td><?php echo $movie['director'] ?></td> </tr> <tr> <th>IMDB Rating</th> <td><?php echo $movie['imdb_rating'] ?></td> </tr> <tr> <th>IMDB Ranking</th> <td><?php echo $movie['imdb_ranking'] ?></td> </tr> </table>