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PHP PHP Basics (Retired) PHP Conditionals & Loops PHP Loops Challenge

Posted by Craig Kempster
Craig Kempster
3,929 Points

Bummer! syntax error, unexpected ')' in index.php on line 4

No idea why this error is coming up

index.php 
<?php 
$names = array('Mike', 'Chris', 'Jane', 'Bob');

foreach ($names) {
echo $names;
}
?>

1 Answer

Hanley Chan
Hanley Chan
27,771 Points
Hanley Chan
Hanley Chan
27,771 Points

From the php.net documents the correct syntax for the foreach loop should be:

foreach (array_expression as $value)
    statement

In this example the correct syntax should be:

foreach ($names as $name) {
echo $name;
}