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PHP

Posted by Kari Jones
Kari Jones
6,217 Points

God, I'm an idiot. Please help!

I know, This is my fourth code challenge help forum post. I'm an idiot. This time, I on the associative arrays code challenge in listing inventory items which is part of build a simple php application. Here is my code:

<h1><?php echo $movie["title"]; ?> (<?php echo $movie["year"]; ?>)</h1>
<?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;

?>
<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>

The reason I have the other parts of the array is because I cheated a little bit and put static text into the h1 tag, and that got me through. But then I tried to fix the h1 tag later to show the php, and it made me go back to task three. the error message I get is:

Bummer! The title of the second movie is not displayed in the <h1>.

Can anyone help me?

1 Answer

Randy Hoyt
STAFF
Randy Hoyt
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Randy Hoyt
Randy Hoyt
Treehouse Guest Teacher

(I'm not God, but I'll try to help. :-)

PHP code runs in order top to bottom. In the first line, you have this:

echo $movie["title"]

However, there is no $movie array defined yet. (You define it later, but it needs to be defined before you can echo it.)

Does that help?

Randy Hoyt
Randy Hoyt
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Randy Hoyt
Randy Hoyt
Treehouse Guest Teacher

... and when you do define the array, be sure to put quotation marks around your associative keys, like this:

$movie["title"] = "The Empire Strikes Back";
Kari Jones
Kari Jones
6,217 Points

Thanks for the quick response Randy! I am now passed that code challenge! (I don't know, you sure seem like god to me! :-)

Michael Immordino
Michael Immordino
Courses Plus Student 6,749 Points

This seems appropriate for the PHP God:

We are not worthy