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

Posted by Naison Masiyashe
Naison Masiyashe
2,736 Points

where am i going wrong on this one

i am failing to add more php commands on this code challenge

index.php 
<?php
$movie = [];
$movie['title'] = "The Empire Strikes Back";
$movie['year'] = "1980";
$movie['director'] = "Irvin Kershner";
$movie['imdb_rating'] = "8.8.";
$movie['imdb_ranking'] = "11.";
?>
<h1><?php echo $movie['title']?><?php echo $movie['year'] ?></h1>

<table>
  <tr>
    <th>Director</th>
    <td> <?php echo $movie['director'] ?>
             <?php echo $movie['imdb_rating']?>
              <?php echo $movie['imdb_ranking']
           ?>
     </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <th>IMDB Rating</th>
    <td>8.5</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <th>IMDB Ranking</th>
    <td>53</td>
  </tr>
</table>
Kristin Berlehner
Kristin Berlehner
26,734 Points
Kristin Berlehner
Kristin Berlehner
26,734 Points

I think it may have something to do with where you are echoing out your php array values. You need to place <?php echo $movie['imdb_rating']?> where the 8.5 is in the table and move <?php echo $movie['imdb_ranking'] ?> to the correct location in the table as well. You are pulling this data from the array, so it shouldn't be hard coded in the table.

1 Answer

Jason Anders
MOD
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points
Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points

Hey Naison,

You are definitely on the right track and have all the right code, just not in the right place. The IMDB rating needs to go in the <td> for rating and the IMDB ranking needs to go in the <td> for ranking.

Also, you have a minor typo that will cause the challenge to error out as well. In the original declaration of the "rating" and "ranking" you added a period that was not asked for.

Below is the corrected code. It should makes sense now where the errors were coming from:

<?php
$movie = [];
$movie['title'] = "The Empire Strikes Back";
$movie['year'] = "1980";
$movie['director'] = "Irvin Kershner";
$movie['imdb_rating'] = "8.8";
$movie['imdb_ranking'] = "11";
?>
<h1><?php echo $movie['title']?><?php echo $movie['year']?></h1>

<table>
  <tr>
    <th>Director</th>
    <td><?php echo $movie['director']?></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <th>IMDB Rating</th>
    <td><?php echo $movie['imdb_rating']?></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <th>IMDB Ranking</th>
    <td><?php echo $movie['imdb_ranking']?></td>
  </tr>
</table>

Keep Coding! :)

:dizzy: