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PHP PHP Arrays and Control Structures PHP Conditionals Switch Statements

Posted by Kumbirai Ruth Huni
Kumbirai Ruth Huni
4,209 Points

switch statements

this is not displaying the correct output. Where could i be getting it wrong

switch.php 
<?php
//Available roles: admin, editor, author, subscriber
if (!isset($role)) {
    $role = 'subscriber';
}

//change to switch statement
if ($role != 'admin') {
    echo "You do not have access to this page. Please contact your administrator.";
} else 
{switch ($role){
  case 'admin':
    echo "as an $role you can add, edit, or delete any post.";
    break;
  default:
    echo "You do not have access to this page. Please contact your administrator.";
    break;
}
}
?>

1 Answer

andren
andren
28,558 Points
andren
andren
28,558 Points

There are two issues:

  1. You are meant to replace the if statement with a switch statement, not add an else statement with a switch statement inside.

  2. challenges are very picky about printing stuff, if the thing you print doesn't match the example string to the dot your code will often be marked as wrong. The issue in your case is that you need to capitalize the A in the beginning of the admin messages string and also add a comma to the sentence that is missing after the "$role" part.

If you fix those two issues like this:

<?php
//Available roles: admin, editor, author, subscriber
if (!isset($role)) {
    $role = 'subscriber';
}

//change to switch statement
switch ($role){
  case 'admin':
    echo "As an $role, you can add, edit, or delete any post.";
    break;
  default:
    echo "You do not have access to this page. Please contact your administrator.";
    break;
}

Then your code will pass the task.

Kumbirai Ruth Huni
Kumbirai Ruth Huni
4,209 Points

<?php //Available roles: admin, editor, author, subscriber if (!isset($role)) { $role = 'author'; }

//change to switch statement switch ($role){ case 'admin': echo "As an $role, you can add, edit, or delete any post."; break; default: echo "You do not have access to this page. Please contact your administrator."; break; } ?>

did the above but it is still not passing

andren
andren
28,558 Points
andren
andren
28,558 Points

It should pass the first task, I verified that before posting my example, and the code you posted works too. This challenge has two tasks, are you sure the challenge did not move from task 1 to task 2? If if didn't then it likely a bug, the code checker is not always the most reliable.

You can restart the challenge and just paste in the code I posted above, that should definitively work.