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Maximiliane Quel
Courses Plus Student 55,489 PointsAssociative Array Code Challenge - too many elements?
I have gotten to the code challenge up to task five just fine (I think). Then as soon as I add the code that is supposed to add three more elements I get an error message reading:
"Bummer! Your array has too many elements. It should have five elements."
but as far as I can see I only added three elements??
<?php
$movie = array ("");
$movie[title] = "The Empire Strikes Back";
$movie[year] = 1980;
$movie[director] = "Irvin Kershner";
$movie[imdb_rating] = 8.8;
$movie[imdb_ranking] = 11;
?>
<h1><?php echo $movie[title]." "."(".$movie[year].")"; ?></h1>
<table>
<tr>
<th>Director</th>
<td>Robert Zemeckis</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>IMDB Rating</th>
<td>8.5</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>IMDB Ranking</th>
<td>53</td>
</tr>
</table>
Help please!
3 Answers
dhillonsh
4,745 Points<?php
$movie = array();
$movie['title'] = "The Empire Strikes Back";
$movie['year'] = 1980;
$movie['director'] = 'Irvin Kershner';
$movie['imdb_rating'] = 8.8;
$movie['imdb_ranking'] = 11;
?>
<h1><?php echo $movie['title']; ?> (<?php echo $movie['year']; ?>)</h1>
<table>
<tr>
<th>Director</th>
<td>Robert Zemeckis</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>IMDB Rating</th>
<td>8.5</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>IMDB Ranking</th>
<td>53</td>
</tr>
</table>
You made the mistake of adding "" in your array that should have been empty.
$movie = array("");
which turned your entire $movie array into
$movie = array(0 => "", 'title' => 'The Empire Strikes Back', 'year' => 1980, 'director' => 'Irvin Kershner', 'imdb_rating' => 8.8, 'imdb_ranking' => 11);
So your array actually had 6 elements, rather than 5.
Maximiliane Quel
Courses Plus Student 55,489 Pointsoh! thanks!!!
Julian Price
11,760 PointsDid that work you mark Harpreet Dhillon a great answer
Maximiliane Quel
Courses Plus Student 55,489 PointsYes it did work. I'm not sure what you are asking?