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PHP Build a Simple PHP Application Listing Inventory Items Associative Arrays

Posted by shane hilton
shane hilton
Courses Plus Student 11,589 Points

PHP Development challenge 5 of 7

stuck on this code challenge cannot get it to work i have read the other forums but no help am i missing something here is my code from the challenge

<?php $movie = array( "title" => "The Empire Strikes Back", "year" => "1980" ); ?>

<h1><?php echo $movie["title"]; ?>(<?php echo $movie["year"]; ?>)</h1>

3 Answers

Stephen Smith
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Stephen Smith
Courses Plus Student 27,878 Points
Stephen Smith
Stephen Smith
Courses Plus Student 27,878 Points

I think it may just be that there is no space between the movie title php statement and the first parenthesis. <?php echo $movie["title"]; ?>[space needed here](<?php echo $movie["year"]; ?>)

Jeff Busch
Jeff Busch
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Jeff Busch
Jeff Busch
19,287 Points

Hi Shane,

Two things, one is the h1 tags are missing, maybe you just didn't type them, and two is you need a space between ?> and (. In the real world the code will work without the space but you wont have a space between Back and (1980). I guess the code challenge doesn't like that. Also, while I have your attention I'd like to offer the following:

If you look to the bottom right of the text box you will see something that says Markdown Cheetsheet. Also, there is a post here titled: Posting Code to the Forum by Dave McFarland. If you don't understand that maybe this will make sense: How to display code at Treehouse.

Jeff

shane hilton
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shane hilton
Courses Plus Student 11,589 Points
shane hilton
shane hilton
Courses Plus Student 11,589 Points

thanks heaps for some reason when i copy and pasted the code the h1 tags disappeared that space worked for me spent over an hour trying to work it out cannot be leave it was as simple as the space

thanks heaps