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PHP

Posted by Ioan Ionkov
Ioan Ionkov
Courses Plus Student 6,921 Points

conditional statement issue on PHP basics

I am trying to solve one of the tasks in the conditional section, the task itself is: "Check if each student has a GPA of 4.0. If the student has a GPA of 4.0, use the student's name variable to display "NAME made the Honor Roll". If not, use the variable to display "NAME has a GPA of GPA" and the error I am receiving is " Bummer! You need to check that $studentOneGPA is equal to 4.0". But I check for it and upon running the script on a server, everything is displaying as it should correctly. Here is my code:

<?php
$studentOneName = 'Dave';
$studentOneGPA = 3.8;

$studentTwoName = 'Treasure';
$studentTwoGPA = 4.0;

//Place your code below this comment

if ( $studentOneGPA >= 4.0)
  echo "$studentOneName " . "made the Honor Roll ";
else 
  echo "$studentOneName " . "has a GPA of" . " $studentOneGPA";

if ($studentTwoGPA >= 4.0)
  echo " $studentTwoName " . "made the Honor Roll";
else 
  echo " $studentTwoName " . "has a GPA of" . " $studentTwoGPA"; 
?>

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Ioan Ionkov
Ioan Ionkov
Courses Plus Student 6,921 Points

Other than the >= operator, I have also tried doing it with ==

2 Answers

Gamzat Mukailov
Gamzat Mukailov
12,627 Points
Gamzat Mukailov
Gamzat Mukailov
12,627 Points

I found the problem!

I dont know why but you have to use this code, because it is the only one which works.

<?php

$studentOneName = 'Dave';
$studentOneGPA = 3.8;

$studentTwoName = 'Treasure';
$studentTwoGPA = 4.0;

//Place your code below this comment

if ($studentOneGPA == 4.0) {
  echo $studentOneName . " made the Honor Roll";
} else {
  echo $studentOneName . " has a GPA of " . $studentOneGPA;
}

if ($studentTwoGPA == 4.0) {
  echo $studentTwoName . " made the Honor Roll";
} else {
  echo $studentTwoName . " has a GPA of " . $studentTwoGPA;
}

?> ```

I have it from: https://teamtreehouse.com/community/code-challenge-conditionals
Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher

Hi there! You are correct, you should be using the == sign as the challenge requires it and will not accept the >=. However, it also seems to be demanding that your echo statements be contained within curly braces/brackets {}. I'm fairly convinced that they're unnecessary when the code block only contains one statement, but it is causing the challenge to fail. Here's some pseudocode to show what they're wanting.

if ($this == $that) {
   echo "They're equal.";
}
else {
   echo "They're not equal.";
}

Give it another shot using the double equals sign and curly braces/brackets around your if else blocks.

Hope this helps! :sparkles: