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PHP Build a Simple PHP Application Integrating with PayPal Array Keys

Posted by Colletah Mavunduse
Colletah Mavunduse
5,414 Points

i have modified the foreach loop but still its saying its wrong

The array below contains a list of books. Each element in the array has the book’s title as its value and the ISBN as its key. Right now, the page is only displaying the book titles in the browser. In this code challenge, we will modify the page to also display each book’s ISBN. First, we need to make the keys from the books array accessible inside the foreach loop. Modify the foreach command so that, as it loops through the books, it loads the ISBN for each book into a working variable called $isbn.

books.php 
<?php

$books["978-0743261690"] = "Gilgamesh";
$books["978-0060931957"] = "The Odyssey";
$books["978-0192840509"] = "Aesop's Fables";
$books["978-0520227040"] = "Mahabharta";
$books["978-0393320978"] = "Beowulf";

?><html>
<head>
    <title>Five Great Books</title>
</head>
<body>
    <h1>Five Great Books</h1>
    <ul>
        <?php foreach($books as $book=>$isbn) { ?>
            <li><?php echo $book . " " . "$isbn"; ?></li>
        <?php } ?>
    </ul>
</body>
</html>
Colletah Mavunduse
Colletah Mavunduse
5,414 Points

<li><?php echo $book . " " . "($isbn)"; ?></li>

3 Answers

geoffrey
geoffrey
28,724 Points
geoffrey
geoffrey
28,724 Points

You were close, but what you need to do is this to access the keys of your associative array.

<?php

$books["978-0743261690"] = "Gilgamesh";
$books["978-0060931957"] = "The Odyssey";
$books["978-0192840509"] = "Aesop's Fables";
$books["978-0520227040"] = "Mahabharta";
$books["978-0393320978"] = "Beowulf";

?>

<html>
<head>
    <title>Five Great Books</title>
</head>
<body>
    <h1>Five Great Books</h1>
    <ul>
        <?php foreach($books as $isbn => $book) { ?>
            <li><?php echo $book." ".$isbn; ?></li>
        <?php } ?>
    </ul>
</body>
</html>
Sam Donald
Sam Donald
36,305 Points
Sam Donald
Sam Donald
36,305 Points

You're all close but it asks for the $isbn to display in parentheses, like so

<?php foreach($books as $isbn => $book) { ?>
        <li><?php echo $book." "."(".$isbn.")"; ?></li>
<?php } ?>

Which will output Gilgamesh (978-0743261690)