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PHP

Catalin Mircea Nicolaica
Catalin Mircea Nicolaica
16,781 Points
Posted by Catalin Mircea Nicolaica
Catalin Mircea Nicolaica
16,781 Points

Build a Basic PHP Website parse error

I was following along using my own text editor and server so I can practice some PHP when I hit a parse error on the data.php file from course, this is the error : Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '[' in /home/sites/webphptests.tk/public_html/inc/data.php on line 2

Now I have looked at the code and could not see anything wrong, and I have also paste the code in a php code checker, again nothing wrong and after that I even downloaded the files from the course and not even with those it does not seem to work(same parse error). I do not know why, since I had the same code as teacher than I downloaded teacher's code and I am getting same error, if someone could help, it would be verry much appreciated! Also everything was working fine untill the data.php file.

Also part of the course is : Listing and Sorting Inventory Items at Displaying All Items

2 Answers

jacobproffer
jacobproffer
24,604 Points
jacobproffer
jacobproffer
24,604 Points

Hey Catalin,

Can you post the code from your data.php file as well as how you're including that file?

Catalin Mircea Nicolaica
Catalin Mircea Nicolaica
16,781 Points
Catalin Mircea Nicolaica
Catalin Mircea Nicolaica
16,781 Points

This is the data.php

<?php 
$catalog = [];
$catalog[101] = [
    "title" => "A Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software",
    "img" => "img/media/design_patterns.jpg",
    "genre" => "Tech",
    "format" => "Paperback",
    "year" => 1994,
    "category" => "Books",
    "authors" => [
        "Erich Gamma",
        "Richard Helm",
        "Ralph Johnson",
        "John Vlissides"
    ],
    "publisher" => "Prentice Hall",
    "isbn" => '978-0201633610'
];
$catalog[102] = [
    "title" => "Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship",
    "img" => "img/media/clean_code.jpg",
    "genre" => "Tech",
    "format" => "Ebook",
    "year" => 2008,
    "category" => "Books",
    "authors" => [
        "Robert C. Martin"
    ],
    "publisher" => "Prentice Hall",
    "isbn" => '978-0132350884'
];
$catalog[103] = [
    "title" => "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code",
    "img" => "img/media/refactoring.jpg",
    "genre" => "Tech",
    "format" => "Hardcover",
    "year" => 1999,
    "category" => "Books",
    "authors" => [
        "Martin Fowler",
        "Kent Beck",
        "John Brant",
        "William Opdyke",
        "Don Roberts"
    ],
    "publisher" => "Addison-Wesley Professional",
    "isbn" => '978-0201485677'
];
$catalog[104] = [
    "title" => "The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers",
    "img" => "img/media/clean_coder.jpg",
    "genre" => "Tech",
    "format" => "Audio",
    "year" => 2011,
    "category" => "Books",
    "authors" => [
        "Robert C. Martin"
    ],
    "publisher" => "Prentice Hall",
    "isbn" => '007-6092046981'
];
//Movies
$catalog[201] = [
    "title" => "Forrest Gump",
    "img" => "img/media/forest_gump.jpg",
    "genre" => "Drama",
    "format" => "DVD",
    "year" => 1994,
    "category" => "Movies",
    "director" => "Robert Zemeckis",
    "writers" => [
        "Winston Groom",
        "Eric Roth"
    ],
    "stars" => [
        "Tom Hanks",
        "Rebecca Williams",
        "Sally Field",
        "Michael Conner Humphreys"
    ]
];
$catalog[202] = [
    "title" => "Office Space",
    "img" => "img/media/office_space.jpg",
    "genre" => "Comedy",
    "format" => "Blu-ray",
    "year" => 1999,
    "category" => "Movies",
    "director" => "Mike Judge",
    "writers" => [
        "William Goldman"
    ],
    "stars" => [
        "Ron Livingston",
        "Jennifer Aniston",
        "David Herman",
        "Ajay Naidu",
        "Diedrich Bader",
        "Stephen Root"
    ]
];
$catalog[203] = [
    "title" => "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring",
    "img" => "img/media/lotr.jpg",
    "genre" => "Drama",
    "format" => "Blu-ray",
    "year" => 2001,
    "category" => "Movies",
    "director" => "Peter Jackson",
    "writers" => [
        "J.R.R. Tolkien",
        "Fran Walsh",
        "Philippa Boyens",
        "Peter Jackson"
    ],
    "stars" => [
        "Ron Livingston",
        "Jennifer Aniston",
        "David Herman",
        "Ajay Naidu",
        "Diedrich Bader",
        "Stephen Root"
    ]
];
$catalog[204] = [
    "title" => "The Princess Bride",
    "img" => "img/media/princess_bride.jpg",
    "genre" => "Comedy",
    "format" => "DVD",
    "year" => 1987,
    "category" => "Movies",
    "director" => "Rob Reiner",
    "writers" => [
        "William Goldman"
    ],
    "stars" => [
        "Cary Elwes",
        "Mandy Patinkin",
        "Robin Wright",
        "Chris Sarandon",
        "Christopher Guest",
        "Wallace Shawn",
        "André the Giant",
        "Fred Savage",
        "Peter Falk",
        "Billy Crystal"
    ]
];
//Music
$catalog[301] = [
    "title" => "Beethoven: Complete Symphonies",
    "img" => "img/media/beethoven.jpg",
    "genre" => "Clasical",
    "format" => "CD",
    "year" => 2012,
    "category" => "Music",
    "artist" => "Ludwig van Beethoven"
];
$catalog[302] = [
    "title" => "Elvis Forever",
    "img" => "img/media/elvis_presley.jpg",
    "genre" => "Rock",
    "format" => "Vinyl",
    "year" => 2015,
    "category" => "Music",
    "artist" => "Elvis Presley"
];
$catalog[303] = [
    "title" => "No Fences",
    "img" => "img/media/garth_brooks.jpg",
    "genre" => "Country",
    "format" => "Cassette",
    "year" => 1990,
    "category" => "Music",
    "artist" => "Garth Brooks"
];
$catalog[304] = [
    "title" => "The Very Thought of You",
    "img" => "img/media/nat_king_cole.jpg",
    "genre" => "Jaz",
    "format" => "MP3",
    "year" => 2008,
    "category" => "Music",
    "artist" => "Nat King Cole"
];

This is the catalog.php

<?php

include("inc/data.php");
include("inc/functions.php");

$pageTitle = "Full Catalog";
$section = null;


if (isset($_GET["cat"])) {
    if ($_GET["cat"] == "books") {
      $pageTitle = "Books";
      $section = "books";
    } else if ($_GET["cat"] == "movies") {
      $pageTitle = "Movies";
      $section = "movies";
    } else if ($_GET["cat"] == "music") {
      $pageTitle = "Music";
      $section = "music";
    }
}


include("inc/header.php"); ?>

<div class="section catalog page">
   <div class="wrapper">
    <h1><?php echo $pageTitle; ?></h1>   
     <ul class= "items">
      <?php
       foreach ($catalog as $id => $item) {
         echo get_item_html($id, $item);
       }
       ?>

     </ul>

   </div>

</div>

<?php include("inc/footer.php"); ?>