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Amritpan Kaur
2,118 PointsHaving difficulty with Part 2 of Challenge in PHP Development - Integrating with Paypal
''' php
<?php
$books["978-0743261690"] = "Gilgamesh"; $books["978-0060931957"] = "The Odyssey"; $books["978-0192840509"] = "Aesop's Fables"; $books["978-0520227040"] = "Mahabharta"; $books["978-0393320978"] = "Beowulf";
?><html> <head> <title>Five Great Books</title> </head> <body> <h1>Five Great Books</h1> <ul> <?php foreach($books as $isbn => $book) { ?> <li> <?php echo $book ; ?> (<?php echo $isbn ; ?>) </li> <?php } ?> </ul> </body> </html>
'''
Challenge task 2 of 2 Next, modify the code inside the foreach loop to display the $isbn in parentheses. After the title, add a space, an opening parenthesis, the ISBN, and a closing parenthesis.
The code above is what I've come up with. I've tested it, and it's giving what the Challenge is asking.
The Challenge seems to disagree. Here's the message that I get when I go to submit: Bummer! I see all the book titles and the ISBNs in the browser, but the formatting is not quite right. Each list item should look like this: Book Title (978-0123456789)
I'm not sure what formatting I'm missing. My code processes as: Book Title (978-0123456789).
Help?
2 Answers
David Kaneshiro Jr.
29,247 PointsIt looks like the challenge wants you to concatenate the parenthesis, space, and ISBN to after $book so that it's just one echo statement.
<li><?php echo $book . " (" . $isbn . ")"; ?></li>
Also you seem to be missing the <li></li> tags.
Amritpan Kaur
2,118 PointsThanks! Originally I had used concatenation, but that didn't work. I see what I did wrong. Thanks again.
For some reason, the tags didn't post when I copy pasted the code here. I tried to edit, but the tags still wouldn't show.