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PHP Build a Simple PHP Application Listing Inventory Items Associative Arrays

clint cotchobos
clint cotchobos
6,593 Points
Posted by clint cotchobos
clint cotchobos
6,593 Points

i need help

4 0f 7 code challange

movie.php 
<?php                                           

$movie = array(
"title" = "The Empire Strikes Back";
"year" = "1980";
)


?>

<h1><?php echo $movie["title"] . ("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>

4 Answers

Ron McCranie
Ron McCranie
7,837 Points
Ron McCranie
Ron McCranie
7,837 Points

There are a few things wrong with what you have. 1) You're not using the $movie['year'] you still have 1985 2) The parenthesis need to be in quotes 3) The dots go between the php variables and the strings in parenthesis.

Take a look at what I have.

<?php
  $movie = array();
  $movie['title'] = "The Empire Strikes Back";
  $movie['year'] = "1980";
?>

<h1><?php echo $movie['title']." (".$movie['year'].")"; ?></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>
Robert Richey
Robert Richey
Courses Plus Student 16,352 Points

Hi Ron,

Step 4 / 7 is still using '(1985)' and completed successfully for me with this line

<h1><?php echo $movie["title"]; ?> (1985)</h1>
Robert Richey
PLUS
Robert Richey
Courses Plus Student 16,352 Points
Robert Richey
Robert Richey
Courses Plus Student 16,352 Points

An associative array can be initialized with a set of comma separated key => value pairs like this

<?php

$foo = array("food" => "bacon", "vehicle" => "car");

echo $foo["food"]; // bacon
echo $foo["vehicle"]; // car

?>
thomascawthorn
thomascawthorn
22,986 Points
thomascawthorn
thomascawthorn
22,986 Points

What's your question? What's the code challenge question? What was the question before this? Be specific :-)

alex mattingley
alex mattingley
7,508 Points
alex mattingley
alex mattingley
7,508 Points

Hello :)

You need to make sure that you are specific with your questions! what error are you getting? what have you tried changing so far? What exactly is question 4 of 7? We might be code geniuses (or novices in my case) but we definitely have not mesmerized all of the questions!

Anyhoo, good luck, I think the above answers should cover it!