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

Posted by Naison Masiyashe
Naison Masiyashe
2,736 Points

how do i pass $letters to a count function ()

how do i do it

index.php 
<?php
$letters = array("A",
                 "C",
                 "M",
                 "E"
                );


echo "Today's challenge is brought to you by the ";
echo $letters
echo " letters: ";
echo "ACME";
echo ".";

?>

1 Answer

Nathan Ward
Nathan Ward
7,907 Points
Nathan Ward
Nathan Ward
7,907 Points

You need to pass the array $letters to the function count() an example:

<?php
$letters = array(
                 "A",
                 "C",
                 "M",
                 "E"
                );
$letter_count = count($letters);
echo $letter_count;
?>

More information on this PHP function can be found here: http://php.net/manual/en/function.count.php