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Sofia Petsoulakis
Sofia Petsoulakis
681 Points
Posted by Sofia Petsoulakis
Sofia Petsoulakis
681 Points

Having trouble adding movie["year"] in parenthesis. Tried multiple ways, no sure what I'm doing wrong.

I keep getting errors, I even used a separate php command for the year and tried concatenated the parenthesis with the year. Any help would be appreciated so I can move forward. Thanks.

movie.php 
<?php
$movie = array(
  "title" => "The Empire Strikes Back",
  "year" => 1980



);



?>


<h1><?php echo $movie["title"]($movie["year"];) ?></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>
Schweine FEin
Schweine FEin
2,671 Points

I know the answer was "The Empire Strikes Back (1980)" but this way you won't learn something. So I posted just a hint for you and with some thinking you would have figured it out ;) Just saying because of the comment you wrote and now is deleted.

2 Answers

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Hi Sofia,

You have a few different ways you can handle this.

If you go with separate php blocks then you want to make sure that the parentheses are outside of the php blocks and that you have maintained spacing.

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

Or you could do it with one php block and string concatenation.

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

I'd say the first one is probably more readable.

Schweine FEin
Schweine FEin
2,671 Points

I would say the concatenation is more readable but perhaps just because i'm used to it :D

Schweine FEin
Schweine FEin
2,671 Points
Schweine FEin
Schweine FEin
2,671 Points

You must use string concatenation and that works like this:

<?php
    echo $movie["title"] . $movie["year"] ;
    // output : "The Empire Strikes Back1980"
?>

For getting in the parentheses you just have to add more strings for concatenation:

<?php
    echo $movie["title"] . ' (' . $movie["year"]  . ')';
    // output : "The Empire Strikes Back 1980"
?>

Well I wanted you to think about the actual solution yourself but that doesn't matter now since jason posted the full solution so I edited this as well
Schweine FEin
Schweine FEin
2,671 Points

Damm this code tags, well now I've got it xD