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PHP Build a Simple PHP Application Working With Functions Creating the Shirt Display Function

Ross Campbell
Ross Campbell
5,410 Points
Posted by Ross Campbell
Ross Campbell
5,410 Points

no longer showing images

hello everyone!

hoping for a little bit of insight, before i tear my code apart. So far everything has been spot on while building the T-shirt store, but i've just got to building the shirt display function and now all the images have gone. The box and border shows up as does the view details with the orange x on hover, but i've lot the shirt images.

i've looked through the code you write in this video and can't find an discrepancies.

function get_list_view_html($products_id, $products) {
    // build HTML output;

    $output = "";

    $output = $output . "<li>";
    $output = $output . '<a href="shirt.php?id=' . $product_id . '">';
    $output = $output . '<img src="' . $product["img"] . '"alt="' .  $product["name"] . '">';
    $output = $output . '<p>View Details</p>';
    $output = $output . "</a>";
    $output = $output . "</li>";

    return $output;
}

any help or insight would be greatly appreciated.

thanks everyone.

Ross

4 Answers

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Hi Ross,

You've added 's' to your function parameters.

function get_list_view_html($products_id, $products) {

should be:

function get_list_view_html($product_id, $product) {
Aimee Burnett
Aimee Burnett
4,130 Points
Aimee Burnett
Aimee Burnett
4,130 Points

I am having nearly the same issue. I have read this question forum and even copied the amended version of the code shown here to try and remedy the white screen popping up on my shirts.php (it is a completely blank screen), and no images showing on the index.html (the header and footer show up here but the images do not). I have looked through the code and watched the video three times to try and see what small errors I am making in the files to cause this but I can't find them.

The following is my shirts.php code in full:

  include("inc/products.php"); 


  $pageTitle = "Mike's Full Catelog of Shirts";
  $section = "Shirts";
  include('inc/header.php'); ?>

        <div class="section shirts page">

            <div class="wrapper">

                <h1>Mike&rsquo;s Full Catelog of Shirts</h1>

                <ul class="products">
                    <?php foreach($products as $product_id => $product) {
                            echo get_list_view_html($product_id,$product);
                        }
                    ?>
                </ul>

            </div>

        </div>




<?php include('inc/footer.php'); ?>

and my inc/products.php code is shown below:

 <?php

  function get_list_view_html($product_id, $product) {

    $output = "";

    $output = $output . "<li>";
    $output = $output . '<a href="shirt.php?id=' . $product_id . '">';
    $output = $output . '<img src="' . $product["img"] . '" alt="' . $product["name"] . '">';
    $output = $output . "<p>View Details</p>";
    $output = $output . "</a>";
    $output = $output . "</li>";

    return $output;
}

Any help anyone could offer would be awesome. Just can't seem to comb through it and find the solution. I think I may just need a second set of eyes.

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Hi Aimee,

In shirts.php I don't see your opening php tag at the top. Was that a copy/paste error or is it missing from your code?

For the index page, is it currently using the get_list_view_html function?

Aimee Burnett
Aimee Burnett
4,130 Points
Aimee Burnett
Aimee Burnett
4,130 Points

Hey jason, yeah there are php tags in my code it just cut off the code at the top when I included them for some reason so I left them out. Sorry I realize that is a bit confusing. So I suppose read the code as though the php tags are implemented correctly

Michael Lazarz
Michael Lazarz
15,135 Points
Michael Lazarz
Michael Lazarz
15,135 Points

I had the same issue and this is what I found to be the problem. Look at your products.php file. Then look at the $products [101] = array and look at the "sizes" => array. Make sure that you include the enclosing " ) " but not a semi-colon but then make sure the closing " ) " for the entire array does have one at the end. So:

(``` $products[101] = array( "name" => "Logo Shirt, Red", "img" => "img/shirts/shirt-101.jpg", "price" => 18, "paypal" => "9P7DLECFD4LKE", "sizes" => array("Small", "Medium", "Large", "X-Large") <------------------------ ( This is needed to close the "sizes" array ) ); <--------( this is needed to close out entire array)

That was the issue I had. Not sure if that helps at all. And I apologize if the code is messy. For some reason it wouldn't let me format the right way.