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

Jason Martin
PLUS
Jason Martin
Courses Plus Student 9,316 Points

Whats wrong with my code?

I'm getting this error: "Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'if' (T_IF)" on this code: function array_category($catalog,$category) { $output = array();

foreach ($catalog as $id => $item) { if ($category == null OR if strtolower($category) == strtolower($item["category"])) { $sort = $item["title"]; $sort = ltrim($sort, "The "); $sort = ltrim($sort, "A "); $sort = ltrim($sort, "An "); $output[$id] = $sort; } }

asort($output); return array_keys($output); } I have reviewed the video and it seems I have followed everything perfectly...so whats wrong?

1 Answer

Carlos Federico Puebla Larregle
Carlos Federico Puebla Larregle
21,074 Points

You have an "if" keyword inside of the conditional statement of another if statement:

 if ($category == null OR if strtolower($category) == strtolower($item["category"]))
if($category == null OR strtolower($category) == strtolower($item["category"]))

Omitting it should be enough.

I hope that helps you a little bit.