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

Emily Elzinga
Emily Elzinga
984 Points
Posted by Emily Elzinga
Emily Elzinga
984 Points

What am I doing wrong?

It says: "Bummer! You need to add a <php ... ?> tag that echoes the value in $movie["title"] within the <h1> element." What happened?

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>

3 Answers

Simon Coates
Simon Coates
28,694 Points
Simon Coates
Simon Coates
28,694 Points

I think it's being irrational. I copied your code and got the same error. The following works:

<?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>

The error seems to be related purely to formatting. I emailed treehouse to get their opinion on whether this is a bug.

Adam Brown
Adam Brown
12,453 Points
Adam Brown
Adam Brown
12,453 Points

You shouldn't put a space between the ";" and the end of your statement. It probably expects some sort of argument there.

Ajith Samraj
PLUS
Ajith Samraj
Courses Plus Student 5,199 Points
Ajith Samraj
Ajith Samraj
Courses Plus Student 5,199 Points

Faced same issue after adding "year" item in main array. Solution: There are 2 php tags that are required as below: <h1><?php echo $movie["title"]; ?> (<?php echo $movie["year"]?>)</h1>