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PHP Enhancing a Simple PHP Application Adding Search: Model Using stripos: Starts with R

Posted by ixrevo
ixrevo
32,051 Points

Inexplicably cannot pass 2nd task in the challenge "Using stripos: Starts with R"

Hi everyone!

The first step of this challenge I've passed easy.

Task 1, Initial code:

<?php

    $var1 = "Broccoli";
    $var2 = "Cream Soda";
    $initial = "R";

    if (stripos($var1,$initial) == 1 && stripos($var2,$initial) == 1) {

        echo $var1 . " and " . $var2 . " both start with " . $initial . ".";

    } else {

        echo "Either " . $var1 . " or " . $var2 . " doesn't start with " . $initial . "; maybe neither of them do.";

    }

?>

Task 1, code that passes the challenge:

<?php

    $var1 = "Broccoli";
    $var2 = "Cream Soda";
    $initial = "R";

    if (strpos($var1,$initial) == 1 && strpos($var2,$initial) == 1) {

        echo $var1 . " and " . $var2 . " both start with " . $initial . ".";

    } else {

        echo "Either " . $var1 . " or " . $var2 . " doesn't start with " . $initial . "; maybe neither of them do.";

    }

?>

Task 2: The code is now displaying the right message. Thanks! Let’s change both variables to words that do start with R to make sure the code still displays the right message: change $var1 to Rocky Road and $var2 to Raspberry.

I've done exactly what the task objective says:

<?php

    $var1 = "Rocky Road";
    $var2 = "Raspberry";
    $initial = "R";

    if (strpos($var1,$initial) == 1 && strpos($var2,$initial) == 1) {

        echo $var1 . " and " . $var2 . " both start with " . $initial . ".";

    } else {

        echo "Either " . $var1 . " or " . $var2 . " doesn't start with " . $initial . "; maybe neither of them do.";

    }

?>

But instead of passing of the challenge I see the following error message: Oops! It looks like Task 1 is no longer passing.

What am I doing wrong?

3 Answers

James Andrews
James Andrews
7,245 Points

the Rs are at position 0 not position 1 you need to test against position 0

James Andrews
James Andrews
7,245 Points

Or I could say that the message that you are getting is exactly what you should be getting with Rs at the 0 place instead of the 1 place with the previous words.

ixrevo
ixrevo
32,051 Points

Yep, I've already figured out that I got the first task of this challenge wrong.

Thank you in any way!

geoffrey
geoffrey
28,736 Points
geoffrey
geoffrey
28,736 Points

I've just passed these exercises and In fact I noticed that if you replace directly the value inside the variable by the ones they asked you to put, that doesn't work. Instead, I defined again the variables with the new variables and then it passed.

   <?php
    $var1 = "Broccoli";
    $var2 = "Cream Soda";

    $var1 = "Rocky Road";
    $var2 = "Raspberry";

    $initial = "R";
   ?>

I did this for each one and I could pass all the exercises successfully.

Marcin Robert Kaźmierczak
Marcin Robert Kaźmierczak
33,570 Points
Marcin Robert Kaźmierczak
Marcin Robert Kaźmierczak
33,570 Points 
<?php

    $var1 = "Rocky Road";
    $var2 = "Raspberry";
    $initial = "R";

    if (strpos($var1,$initial) == 0 && strpos($var2,$initial) == 0) {

        echo $var1 . " and " . $var2 . " both start with " . $initial . ".";

    } else {

        echo "Either " . $var1 . " or " . $var2 . " doesn't start with " . $initial . "; maybe neither of them do.";

    }

?>