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PHP Object-Oriented PHP Basics (Retired) Properties and Methods Mid-Course Challenge

Christian Damm
Christian Damm
26,486 Points
Posted by Christian Damm
Christian Damm
26,486 Points

I always get a "Bummer". But my code is working at my local environment.

I could not find any failures in the code appending this question.

In addition: what's wrong with this treehouse editor? I am working with Ubuntu 14.04 and Chrome. Scrolling and Preview is not working as expected. Is this a known issue? What is the programming language behind that? Maybe Java?

Regards Christian D.

fish.php 
<?php

class Fish {

  public $common_name;
  public $flavor; 
  public $record_weight;

  public function __construct($name, $flavor, $record) {

    $this->common_name = $name;
    $this->flavor = $flavor; 
    $this->record_weight = $record;
  }

  public function getInfo() {
        echo "A " . $this->common_name . " is an " . $this->flavor . " flavored fish. ";
        echo "The world record weight is " . $this->record_weight . ".";
    }

}

$bass = new Fish("Largemouth Bass", "Excellent", "22 pounds 5 ounces");
$bass->getInfo();
?>

2 Answers

William Li
PLUS
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points
William Li
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points

Hi, Christian. The getInfo function needs to have a return value, yours doesn't.

Create a method on Fish named getInfo that takes no parameters and returns a string that ....

It's really simple to fix that. All you need to do is combine 2 echo statements into 1, and replace echo with a return statement.

<?php
  public function getInfo() {
        return "A " . $this->common_name . " is an " . $this->flavor . " flavored fish. The world record weight is " . $this->record_weight . ".";
    }
?>

Now it should pass the challenge.