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

Posted by Andy Hughes
Andy Hughes
10,049 Points

I have tried these exercises and rewatched the videos but I'm still getting them wrong. How do i do it?

I am trying to change the film title using an array $movie["title"] = "The Empire Strikes Back". So I write my code as follows;

<?php echo "<h1>"$movie "(1985) </h1>"; ?>

but when I check the exercise, i'm getting it wrong. I have gone back to the videos but they just don't seem to correlate to what the exercise is asking me to do. I need help as I'm becoming increasingly frustrated with what feels like a mismatch between the videos and the exercises.

index.php 
<?php
$movie["title"] = "The Empire Strikes Back";
?>
<?php
echo "<h1>"$movie "(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

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 Points

Hi there.

It looks like you're trying to cocatenate the value of an associative array to the start of another string, so join one thing to the other.

To do this you need the concatenation operator which is a period.

Try the following making sure you reference the array key. 

<?php echo "<h1>" . $movie["title"] .  "(1985) </h1>"; ?>
Andy Hughes
Andy Hughes
10,049 Points

So close and yet so far! I don't remember seeing a video on concatenating the array, but it might be one I watched a while back. Thanks for your support, sorted now. :)

Daniel Stopka
Daniel Stopka
13,520 Points
Daniel Stopka
Daniel Stopka
13,520 Points

Hi,

you can also leave h1 tag where it is and add php inside it, like this:

<h1><?php echo $movie["title"]; ?> (1985)</h1>
Andy Hughes
Andy Hughes
10,049 Points

Thanks Daniel, I started messing around with the code on phpfiddle and sure enough, this was the solution I ended up at. It also seems like the simplest i.e. less code for syntax errors! :P

Thanks for your help.