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PHP Build a Simple PHP Application Listing Inventory Items Associative Arrays

Posted by Bryan Woodard
Bryan Woodard
5,757 Points

Why is this giving me an error message?

I am trying to run the code, I dont know what I am doing wrong.

''' <?php $movie = array ( "title" = "The Empire Strikes Back"
); ?> <h1>"(1985)"</h1>

<h1><?php echo $movie["title"]; ?> (1985)</h1> '''

3 Answers

Jeff Busch
Jeff Busch
19,287 Points
Jeff Busch
Jeff Busch
19,287 Points

Hi Bryan,

Which question are you on?

Jeff

Bryan Woodard
Bryan Woodard
5,757 Points
Bryan Woodard
Bryan Woodard
5,757 Points

It was: Project -build a simple php application , code challenge : associative arrays

geoffrey
geoffrey
28,736 Points
geoffrey
geoffrey
28,736 Points

There is a problem on the way you assigned the title of the movie with the key. You use the equal sign instead of using equal and greater than signs =>

Here is the way I did this.

<?php

$movie = array();
$movie["title"] = "The Empire Strikes Back";

?>

<h1><?php echo $movie["title"];?> (1985)</h1>

With the way you created your array you should do this

 <?php $movie = array ( "title" => "The Empire Strikes Back")   // not just the equal sign.
); ?>

<h1><?php echo $movie["title"]; ?> (1985)</h1>

Hope it helps.