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

Jorge Díaz
Jorge Díaz
30 Points

Getting a key value assignment error

I'm getting a "Did you assign a value to the "title" key?" it's there, what am I missing? <?php $movie[] = [ "title" => "The Empire Strikes Back" ]; ?>

index.php
<?php
$movie[] = [
  "title" => "The Empire Strikes Back"
];
?>

<h1>Back to the Future (1985)</h1>

<table>
  <tr>
    <th>Director</th>
    <td>Robert Zemeckis</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <th>IMDB Rating</th>
    <td>8.5</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <th>IMDB Ranking</th>
    <td>53</td>
  </tr>
</table>

2 Answers

Benjamin Larson
Benjamin Larson
34,055 Points

Hi Jorge,

You're close, you just need remove the first set of brackets you have on the $movie variable. If the challenge let you pass Task 1 with a declaration like:

$movie[] = [];

it shouldn't have.

Jorge Díaz
Jorge Díaz
30 Points

Hey there Bejamin,

Thank you for your reply, actually that's why I've left the brackets at first because it marked the task 1 as correct, is it possible to report this in case the task 1 is passing with an error?

Benjamin Larson
Benjamin Larson
34,055 Points

Unfortunately I've found many code challenges that let little errors slip undetected like in this scenario. I'm sure the logic behind programming those code challenges is quite the challenge in itself.

I suppose they could be reported as a bug ( https://teamtreehouse.com/support ) but I have yet to do that myself.