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PHP PHP Basics (Retired) PHP Datatypes PHP Datatypes Challenge

Posted by Christian Fazio
Christian Fazio
404 Points

why am i wrong

why does this not work?

index.php 
<?php

//Place your code below this comment

$integer_one = 1;
$integer_two = 2;
$golden = 1.618;
$bool =   TRUE;
$colors = array('red', 'blue', 'green');
echo $colors[1];

$favorite_colors (['mike'] = 'green' , 
                  ['jane'] = 'blue' , 
                  ['chris'] = 'yellow');
?>

1 Answer

Robert Richey
Robert Richey
Courses Plus Student 16,352 Points

Hi Christian,

PHP associative arrays look like this:

<?php
$variableName = [
    "key" => "value",
    "key" => "value",
    "key" => "value"  // no comma here
];

// or the old way still works
$variableName = array(
    "key" => "value",
    "key" => "value",
    "key" => "value"  // no comma here
);
?>

Hope this helps!