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PHP PHP Basics Daily Exercise Program Conditionals

Emiliyan Tsanov
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Emiliyan Tsanov
Courses Plus Student 562 Points
Posted by Emiliyan Tsanov
Emiliyan Tsanov
Courses Plus Student 562 Points

I receive the following error: "Bummer! You need to check that $studentOneGPA is equal to 4.0". My code seems okay.

I wrote two separate codes - one using foreach (just for the fun), and another doing exactly what you wanted. "Check work" does not approve my code. What is the reason?

index.php 
<?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;

//$students = array(
  //array(
    //'name' => $studentOneName,
    //'gpa' => $studentOneGPA),
  //array(
   // 'name' => $studentTwoName,
   // 'gpa' => $studentTwoGPA));

//foreach($students as $student) {
//    if($student['gpa'] == '4.0')
//    echo $student['name'].' '.'made the Honor Roll'."<br>";
//  else
//    echo $student['name'].' '.'has a GPA of'.$student['gpa']."<br>";
//}

?>

3 Answers

Bogdan Cabaj
Bogdan Cabaj
16,348 Points
Bogdan Cabaj
Bogdan Cabaj
16,348 Points

You are missing brackets and you had '4.0' instead of 4.0.

<?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;
}
?>
Abdul Zainos
Abdul Zainos
4,938 Points
Abdul Zainos
Abdul Zainos
4,938 Points

It may want you to call out the GPA as an integer instead of a string. I remember having issues with this as well. When in doubt check out the teacher's notes and refer to the PHP.NET site they provide. 

<?PHP

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";
}

?>
Christof Beck
Christof Beck
5,185 Points
Christof Beck
Christof Beck
5,185 Points

I had the same problem. I think the solution is to add the { } brackets. It isn't actually needed here since you only have 1 statement, the echo statement. I think it's a bug in the challenge and I reported it.