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PHP Build a Basic PHP Website Listing and Sorting Inventory Items Introducing Arrays

Posted by Jonathan Tebb
Jonathan Tebb
672 Points

Help me find the error in my code

It worked until I tried to echo all the items in my $letters array with a foreach statement. I have probely made a error on line 8 or 9. plz help

index.php 
<?php

$letters = array('A','C','M','E');

echo "Today's challenge is brought to you by the ";
echo count($letters);
echo " letters: ";
foreach ($letters as $value){echo "$value"
                             } ;
echo ".";

?>

2 Answers

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 90,704 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 90,704 Points

What's happening is you're trying to log your variable output in line 9 but because you're echoing out as a string, PHP treats it as such and literally outputs $value to the console/screen.

So you're almost there. But try modifying your code so you're referencing the variable name by removing the quotes.

I've also modified the indentation a little bit.

<?php

    foreach ($letters as $value) {
        echo $value;
    };

    echo ".";

Let us know if that helps! :-)

Jonathan Tebb
Jonathan Tebb
672 Points
Jonathan Tebb
Jonathan Tebb
672 Points

Thanks