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Aaron Estrada
Courses Plus Student 12,817 PointsHaving trouble with Challenge task 5 of 7 PHP array (foreach). Please Help!
Challenge task 5 of 7 Right now, the unordered list does not show the flavors from our array. In the next few tasks, we'll change that. This task has two steps. (1) Add the start of a foreach loop with an opening curly brace after the opening <ul> tag but before the first opening <li> tag. The foreach loop should load each element from the flavors array, one at a time, into another variable named flavor. (2) Add the closing curly brace for the foreach loop after the final closing </li> but before the closing </ul>.
My Code answer:
<?php
$flavors = array("Chocolate", "Vanilla", "Strawberry");
?>
<p>Welcome to Ye Olde Ice Cream Shoppe. We sell <?php count($flavors) ?> flavors of ice cream.</p>
<ul>
<?php foreach($flavors as $flavor){
<li><?php echo $flavor; ?></li>
}
</ul>
What am I doing wrong?
4 Answers
Shawn Flanigan
Courses Plus Student 15,815 PointsAaron,
It's hard to tell because of the formatting of your post, but I see a few potential problems:
Looks like you're missing a semi-colon at the end of your call to count($flavors).
I think you'll also need to echo that out, like so:
We sell <?php echo count($flavors); ?> flavors of ice cream.
Later, you're trying to open a new php block inside of another (once you've opened a php block with <?php, as long as you haven't closed it with ?> you don't need to open a new block for other php operations). So, instead of this:
<?php foreach($flavors as $flavor) { <?php echo $flavor; ?> }
it should read:
<?php foreach($flavors as $flavor) { echo $flavor; } ?>
It looks like for the purpose of this challenge, though, all they're looking for is an empty foreach loop, like this:
<?php foreach($flavors as $flavor) { } ?>
You'll probably add code between the curly brackets in the next step.
Hope this helps!
Ken Alger
Treehouse TeacherAaron;
Your code markup is indeed all chopped up, but I don't see the <ul>and <li> tags in your code. The challenge is looking for a foreach loop between the <ul></ul> tags. To point you in the correct direction it will look something like:
<ul>
<?php foreach ($flavors as $flavor) { ?>
<!-- HTML with <li> tags goes here -->
<?php } ?>
</ul>
Happy coding,
Ken
Aaron Estrada
Courses Plus Student 12,817 PointsThanks guys, I've figured it out. I think I've been coding a little too long. I just misread the question. Thanks again guys!
Alexander Stanuga
11,999 PointsI'm not sure exactly where I went wrong either, my code looks identical, but after copying Shawns code above (3rd block) it went through ok.
Aaron Estrada
Courses Plus Student 12,817 PointsAaron Estrada
Courses Plus Student 12,817 PointsFor some reason my code cut off on the posting and I cant put my full code, what is going on?!
If you don't mind taking a look at Build a Simple PHP Application - Listing Inventory Items - More excitement with Arrays - challenge 5 of 7.
Thanks!