Array_reverse

(A) This conditional is true for the last four elements in the array:

if ($total_products - $position < 4) {
    $recent[] = $still;
}

(B) This conditional is true for the first four elements in the array:

if ($position <= 4) {
    $recent[] = $still;
}

That checks if position is less than or equal to 4. Change the conditional in your code from A to B.

Does that help?

Are you using MYSQL? If you are then you could simply sort in a query. Haven't gone through the PHP course here so I'm not 100% of the route that they take. Can you reply with which lesson you've gotten up to in PHP?

Hey Jake,

If you're using the Treehouse php courses and following them exactly, without looking at your code, the only thing I can suggest trying would be to use array_reverse on the products array in the get_products_all function.

function get_products_all() {
// your product code
return array_reverse($products);
}

Hope this helps.

Would you be able to share this block of code so we can see how it's different than the project code?

On the home page, we have a foreach loop that goes through all of the shirts. That foreach loop has a counter that knows the position of the current shirt. Inside the foreach loop, we have a conditional that checks if the shirt's position subtracted from the total number of shirts is less than four; that will display the last four shirts.

In your case, you want to display the first four shirts. Is that right? You can change the conditional ... I think checking if the shirt's position is less than or equal to 4 should work.

Here's the code My get_products_recent function function get_products_recent(){

$recent = array();
$all = get_products_all();
$total_products = count($all);
$position = 0;
foreach($all as $still) {
    $position = $position + 1;
    if ($total_products - $position < 4) {
        $recent[] = $still;
    }
}

return $recent;

};

Let's assume that i have ten stills, each named in order (1,2,3,etc.) and 1 being the newest. When I call on my home page this code <?php include('inc/still.php'); $recent = get_products_recent();?> <ul class="newestProducts"> <?php $list_view_html = ""; foreach($recent as $still) { $list_view_html = $list_view_html . get_list_view_html($still); }

                                echo $list_view_html;
                              ?>                                
                            </ul>    

...it give stills 7-10. I want stills 1-4 to show. Ive tried the the array_reverse when returning $recent in the get_products_recent function, but it returns 10-7.

In your code, have you tried array_reverse($all)?

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