Adding Search Controller & View , can't answer the 2nd quiz question, the adding the else statement.

hi Le Var Range , from the question on task 2: If the array is NOT empty, the foreach loop will execute. But if it IS empty, we should display a message. Add an else block to the conditional that displays the following message in an HTML paragraph tag: 'There are no flavor recommendations for you.'
it says that we ONLY want to see the paragraph if the array is empty.

in your current code you placed the else statement inside the unordered list, which means it will still be printed.

but let's perhaps walk through step 1 and 2 another time completely, so that you have a full picture:

Task1: The following code contains a foreach loop that displays a list of ice cream flavor recommendations. It works great when the $recommendations array has at least one element, but we end up with some extra HTML when we don't have any recommendations. Write a conditional that makes sure the unordered list tags and the foreach loop get executed only if the array has at least one element.

<?php if (!empty($recommendations)) { ?>
    <ul>
        <?php foreach($recommendations as $flavor) { ?>
            <li><?php echo $flavor; ?></li>
        <?php } ?>
    </ul>

  <?php }  ?>

as you see I started the if-statement before the ul-tag, and inside the conditional I checked if the array IS NOT empty. if that condition is met, means if the array HAS something in it then the ul will be displayed on the page.

now let's move to task2: we now want to show a paragraph ONLY when the array is empty and don't want to show the ul at all. so we put our else to our first global check like so:

<?php if (!empty($recommendations)) { ?>
    <ul>
        <?php foreach($recommendations as $flavor) { ?>
            <li><?php echo $flavor; ?></li>
        <?php } ?>
    </ul>

  <?php } else {  ?>

  <p>There are no flavor recommendations for you.</p>
  <?php } ?>

hope that helps and have a nice day ;)