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PHP Designing Interfaces in PHP Abstract Classes Finishing Our Site

Ray Knag
Ray Knag
8,110 Points
Posted by Ray Knag
Ray Knag
8,110 Points

Cannot get nav to work for this lesson

I am having trouble getting Navigation to work for this lesson, I am using the following code in header.php and I am pretty sure it matches what's in the video after watching it a few times. I cannot help but wonder if I am missing something in another file since the error indicates that stdClass could not be converted to a string. My code is:

                <ul class="navbar-nav mr-auto">
                    <?php
                      foreach (new Pages($repo) as $page) {
                        echo '<li class="nave-item';
                        if (isset($slug) && $slug == $page->slug) {
                          echo ' active';
                        }
                        echo '">';
                        echo '<a class="nav-link" href="index.php?slug='
                           . $page . slug . '">';
                        echo ucwords(str_replace('-', ' ', $page->slug));
                        echo '</a></li>';
                      }
                    ?>
                </ul>
                <ul class="navbar-nav mt-2 mt-md-0">
                    <li class="nav-item<?php
                    if ($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] == '/blog.php') {
                      echo ' active';
                    }
                    ?>">
                      <a class="nav-link" href="blog.php">Lastest Blog Posts</a>
                    </li>

The error I get is this:

"Catchable fatal error: Object of class stdClass could not be converted to string in /home/treehouse/workspace/views/header.php on line 35"

I am going to take a look at this a little later with fresh eyes but if someone could help me get on the right track about where to look for this it would be great!

1 Answer

Saajan Bedi
Saajan Bedi
12,174 Points

You're not using object in right manner

<?php
echo '<a class="nav-link" href="index.php?slug='
                           . $page . slug . '">';
// correct way
$page->slug;

?>

Ray Knag
Ray Knag
8,110 Points
Ray Knag
Ray Knag
8,110 Points

Dang, thank you!