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

Posted by Simingaye Dube
Simingaye Dube
2,587 Points

Replace with a PHP command that instead displays the title of the new movie from the array. (Be sure to leave the .

Replace that with a PHP command that instead displays the title of the new movie from the array. (Be sure to leave the <h1> tags and the year intact.)

index.php 
<?php $movie = array ("title" => "The Empire Strikes Back");
?>

<h1><?php echo $movie = "title"; ?> (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>

1 Answer

Sean T. Unwin
Sean T. Unwin
28,690 Points
Sean T. Unwin
Sean T. Unwin
28,690 Points

when you use the statement, <?php $movie = 'title' ?>, you are setting the variable, $movie as a String with the text, 'title'.

What we want to do is retrieve, from the $movie Array, the value of the key 'title'.

In order to for this to happen we want to use the statement <?php echo $movie['title'] ?> within the h1 tag.

When we want to to extract the value of a key from an Array we use square brackets and within the square brackets we want to include either the name of the key as a String or alternatively, we may use the index value (as an Integer) of the key. In the case of our Array, since there is only one item, we may use 0 since Arrays use zero as a starting point. Either way works and valid.

Simingaye Dube
Simingaye Dube
2,587 Points

thanks a lot Sean ive edited to that code but its not running is there any change i should do to he array itself?

Sean T. Unwin
Sean T. Unwin
28,690 Points
Sean T. Unwin
Sean T. Unwin
28,690 Points

The Array declaration is fine as it is. Would you mind pasting your updated code at the point in the Challenge where it is failing?