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

Posted by cleancoder
cleancoder
8,307 Points

My array is not passing. Help!

I am working on Task 2 of 7 in the Build a Basic PHP Website course and thought this array I created would pass, but somehow it's not and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.

index.php 
<?php

$movie = array();
$movie[] = ["title" => "The Empire Strikes Back"];



?>
<h1>Back to the Future (1985)</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>

3 Answers

Simon Coates
Simon Coates
28,694 Points
Simon Coates
Simon Coates
28,694 Points

try 

<?php
$movie = array();
$movie["title"] = "The Empire Strikes Back";

?>
<h1>Back to the Future (1985)</h1>

for task2. I've obviously ommitted some HTML, but you get the idea.

Simon Coates
Simon Coates
28,694 Points
Simon Coates
Simon Coates
28,694 Points

To demonstrate the difference in the event of any uncertainty:

<?php

$movie = array();
$movie["title"] = "The Empire Strikes Back";
var_dump($movie);

$movie = array();
$movie[] = ["title" => "The Empire Strikes Back"];
var_dump($movie);
?>

produces:

array(1) {
  ["title"]=>
  string(23) "The Empire Strikes Back"
}
array(1) {
  [0]=>
  array(1) {
    ["title"]=>
    string(23) "The Empire Strikes Back"
  }
}
cleancoder
cleancoder
8,307 Points
cleancoder
cleancoder
8,307 Points

THANK YOU SIMON! Very helpful and thanks for your prompt reply. It's passing now. :)

Simon Coates
Simon Coates
28,694 Points
Simon Coates
Simon Coates
28,694 Points

cool. i wasn't sure if your uncertainty was about the syntax or what exactly the test wanted. You might have been thinking of syntax like:

<?php
$movie = ["title" => "The Empire Strikes Back"];
?>
<h1>Back to the Future (1985)</h1>
cleancoder
cleancoder
8,307 Points
cleancoder
cleancoder
8,307 Points

It was the syntax that I was unclear on, but I was really trying to do too much. When I took a look at your answers, I simplified my approach and the syntax was then accurate. Your first answer showed me what I was missing.