Why is this not working

echo function should take a string. So just wrap your text after 'echo' into a ' ' or " "

upd: you should call 'getInfo' as a method of the object called $bass like: $bass->getInfo();

Hey Eli,

There's a couple things that are going on here as to why your code is not passing. I'll try to explain classes the best way I can to see if you can figure out why your code doesn't work.

We'll start with this Fish class example and only use 1 property for the class, "common name".

<?php

class Fish {

    public $common_name;
}

This is giving the class Fish a property called $common_name. Now we'll add the construct method:

<?php

class Fish {

    public $common_name;

    public function __construct($name) {
        $this->common_name = $name;
    }
}

The construct method runs once you create a new instance of the class. Now lets create a 2 new instances of this class.

<?php

class Fish {

    public $common_name;

    public function __construct($name) {
        $this->common_name = $name;
    }
}

$fish_one = new Fish("Eli");
$fish_two = new Fish("Mike");

We now have TWO fish objects, each with different names. Notice how I created the objects outside of the class. If you want to access the property of $common_name on either object, you can call it based off of the object you created.

echo $fish_one->common_name; // Outputs: "Eli"
echo $fish_two->common_name; // Outputs: "Mike"

If you want to create a method in the class that returns the name for you, you would use the $this keyword inside of the class and its methods. Let's create 2 methods called getCommonName and greeting and then see how they're used.

<?php

class Fish {

    public $common_name;

    public function __construct($name) {
        $this->common_name = $name;
    }

   public function getCommonName(){
        return $this->common_name;
   }

    public function greeting(){
         return "Good day, " . $this->common_name . "!";
    }
}

$fish_one = new Fish("Eli");
$fish_two = new Fish("Mike");
echo $fish_one->getCommonName(); // Outputs: "Eli"
echo $fish_one->greeting(); // Outputs: "Good day, Eli!"

echo $fish_two->getCommonName(); // Outputs: "Mike"
echo $fish_two->greeting(); // Outputs: "Good day, Mike!"

Eli Tamosauskas Would you mind posting your new modified code here so I can see where its going wrong?