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PHP Build a Basic PHP Website (2018) Listing and Sorting Inventory Items Associative Arrays

Posted by sarabahrini
sarabahrini
5,493 Points

I have assigned a value to title but it still gives me error!

Why it sill asks me to add value to the "title"? <?php $movie = []; $movie[] = [ "title" => "The Empire Strikes Back", ]; ?>

index.php 
<?php 
$movie = []; 
$movie[] = [
  "title" => "The Empire Strikes Back",
];
?>
<h1>Back to the Future (1985)</h1>

<table>
  <tr>
    <th>Director</th>
    <td>Robert Zemeckis</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <th>IMDB Rating</th>
    <td>8.5</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <th>IMDB Ranking</th>
    <td>53</td>
  </tr>
</table>

2 Answers

Adam N
Adam N
70,280 Points
Adam N
Adam N
70,280 Points

You're adding an array to the movies array when you should be adding a key/value pair to it. Key/value pairs are specifically what make an array an associative array

There's info on associative arrays toward the bottom of this page https://www.w3schools.com/Php/php_arrays.asp

Let me know if this helps here

sarabahrini
sarabahrini
5,493 Points
sarabahrini
sarabahrini
5,493 Points

O.. right! I got it this is how it suppose to look like:

<?php $movie = ["title" => "The Empire Strike Back"]; ?>

Thank for your help :)

Adam N
Adam N
70,280 Points

np! You can mark this question as solved by selecting a "best answer". :smile: