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PHP PHP Basics (Retired) PHP Datatypes PHP Datatypes Challenge

Posted by Joy Ahmed
Joy Ahmed
Courses Plus Student 9,687 Points

Code Challange Question - Now using the $colors array, echo the second value.

answered as below:

$colors = array( 'green', 'blue', 'brown'); echo $colors[1];

But my answer is not accepted... am I wrong?

6 Answers

Philip G
Philip G
14,600 Points

The code should work... Maybe it's a technical error, too :)

P.S.: I recommend you to use the Markup Code Block. Click the Markdown Cheatsheet Link under the textarea.

Philip G
Philip G
14,600 Points

Did this answer help? :)

Joy Ahmed
Joy Ahmed
Courses Plus Student 9,687 Points

yes... it was a technical error... thank u

Patrick Meehan
Patrick Meehan
4,640 Points
Patrick Meehan
Patrick Meehan
4,640 Points

Still messed up. The colors they ask for are ('red', 'blue', & 'green') Here is my code

<?php

//Place your code below this comment
$integer_one = 1;
$integer_two = 2;
$golden = 1.618;

$bool = true;

$colors = array('red', 'blue', 'green');

echo $colors[1]

?>
Patrick Meehan
Patrick Meehan
4,640 Points
Patrick Meehan
Patrick Meehan
4,640 Points

can someone check on this problem?

Philip G
Philip G
14,600 Points

This code works for me, but you didn't include the code for the last task:

$favorite_colors = array("mike" => "green", "jane" => "blue", "chris" => "yellow");

Also make sure that you add the semicolon for the echo statement.

Best Regards, Philip

Ryan McKeown
Ryan McKeown
6,999 Points
Ryan McKeown
Ryan McKeown
6,999 Points

Why is this still not fixed? Below is my code and it is not accepting. $colors = array('red', 'blue', 'green'); echo $colors[1];

Philip G
Philip G
14,600 Points

Maybe you wrote the wrong colors or in the wrong order, try this:

$colors = array( 'green', 'blue', 'brown'); echo $colors[1];

Carmen Joubert
Carmen Joubert
6,637 Points
Carmen Joubert
Carmen Joubert
6,637 Points

Same problem here.

echo $colors[1];

Ashton Mattocks
Ashton Mattocks
3,129 Points
Ashton Mattocks
Ashton Mattocks
3,129 Points

Heres the correct code:

<?php

//Place your code below this comment $integer_one = 1;

$integer_two = 2;

$golden = 1.618;

$bool = true;

$colors = array('red', 'blue', 'green');

echo $colors['1']; ?>

Ryan McKeown
Ryan McKeown
6,999 Points
Ryan McKeown
Ryan McKeown
6,999 Points

What I did was I started over from scratch on the challenge and it ran successfully. I believe that once you put in the wrong code, it has trouble recognizing the new code and so it continues to give you the wrong answer message.

hamza fahad
hamza fahad
Courses Plus Student 1,188 Points

hello, Follow my instruction. Write the array and write colors name instead of these and all will be okay.

$colors = array( 'green',
'yellow',
'blue' );

echo $colors[1];