Help please. I couldn't get this right.

Question

What is wrong with my code please..

index.php

<?php
//edit this array
$contacts = array('Alena Holligan', 'Dave McFarland', 'Treasure Porth', 'Andrew Chalkley');
                        array('name' => 'Alena Holligan')
            array('name' => 'Dave McFarland')
            array('name' => 'Treasure Porth')
            array('name' => 'Andrew Chalkley')



echo "<ul>\n";
//$contacts[0] will return 'Alena Holligan' in our simple array of names.
echo "<li>Alena Holligan : alena.holligan@teamtreehouse.com</li>\n";
echo "<li>Dave McFarland : dave.mcfarland@teamtreehouse.com</li>\n";
echo "<li>Treasure Porth : treasure.porth@teamtreehouse.com</li>\n";
echo "<li>Andrew Chalkley : andrew.chalkley@teamtreehouse.com</li>\n";
echo "</ul>\n";

Answer 1 · 2019-02-08T11:46:06Z

February 8, 2019 11:46am

Hi again :)

your array was of the wrong structure, the array key needs to be 'name' and the value is the name of the person.

syntax:
array( key => value);

but working with multidimensional arrays it will mean that you are required to set $contacts as an array first:

$contacts= array(

\\ inner arrays go in here


);

the inner arrays will look like, with the comma at the end to continue the array.

$contacts = array ( 

            array('name' => 'Alena Holligan'),
            array('name' => 'Dave McFarland'),
            array('name' => 'Treasure Porth'),
            array('name' => 'Andrew Chalkley')
);

hope this helps?

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Help please. I couldn't get this right.

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