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PHP Build a Basic PHP Website (2018) Listing and Sorting Inventory Items Associative Arrays

Posted by juliansong
juliansong
1,390 Points

Error with key

Keep showing me "Enter a key for title", don't know where the problem is.

index.php 
<?php 
  $movie = [];
  $movie[1] = [
    "title" => "The Emperor Strikes Back"
  ];
?>
<h1>Back to the Future (1985)</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>

1 Answer

Carlos Federico Puebla Larregle
Carlos Federico Puebla Larregle
21,073 Points
Carlos Federico Puebla Larregle
Carlos Federico Puebla Larregle
21,073 Points

You don't have to use a numeric index since you have an associative array. Use the key, you can do it like this:

<?php
$movie = Array();
$movie["title"] = "The Empire Strikes Back";
?>

I hope that helps a little bit