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PHP Object-Oriented PHP Basics Building the Recipe Accessing Arrays

Alfredo Prince
Alfredo Prince
6,175 Points
Posted by Alfredo Prince
Alfredo Prince
6,175 Points

How is this possible?

Bummer! the color red does not seem to be a value in your array

how is it not!?

index.php 
<?php

//Place your code below this comment
$colors[] = array("red",
"blue",
"green"
);
?>

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher

Hi there! It's because it shouldn't have passed the first step (in my opinion). We use the square brackets to access a specific element in the array. You can see the php documenation here:

http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.array.php

Long story short: remove the square brackets after $colors :smiley:

Alfredo Prince
Alfredo Prince
6,175 Points
Alfredo Prince
Alfredo Prince
6,175 Points

Duh!!!! Thank you!!! Now i know i'm ONLY partially retarded!