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PHP Build a Simple PHP Application Listing Inventory Items Associative Arrays

Posted by Phillip Gibson
Phillip Gibson
1,731 Points

Stuck on this question in the code challenge

I'm not sure how to write this one out:

Right now, the <h1> element has the year of the original movie as a static piece of text. Replace that with a PHP command that INSTEAD displays the year of the new movie from the array. (Be sure to leave the parentheses intact.)

Should the year get its own echo statement or can I put it all in one command and how do I include the parentheses?

movie.php 
<?php

$movie = array();
$movie["title"] = "The Empire Strikes Back";
$movie["year"] = 1980;

?>

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

Hugo Paz
Hugo Paz
15,622 Points
Hugo Paz
Hugo Paz
15,622 Points

Hi Philip,

You cannot access different values on an array like you did.

You need to get the value each time with the correct key.

So this is what you do:

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

You get the value in the array with the key 'title', you then concatenate it with a string with a space and the left parenthesis, then you get the value in the array with the key of 'year' and concatenate it with aa string that contains the right parenthesis.

Phillip Gibson
Phillip Gibson
1,731 Points

Thank you sir, looking at your example I'm glade I asked for help because I doubt I would have figured out how to do the parenthesis