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PHP Build a Basic PHP Website (2018) Listing and Sorting Inventory Items Displaying Categories

Ben Os
Ben Os
20,008 Points
Posted by Ben Os
Ben Os
20,008 Points

I think I did everything Alena showed in this video but I can't filter items by category

In this video we filter our items by categories based on the section variable values associated with each page (books page, videos pages, music page, etc).

I encounter 2 problems:

  1. The categories don't work, moreover, the pages are empty from items.

  2. The music page has an error "unidentified variable - pagetitle"; This is wired as I just tried to put it's H1 similar to the default pagetitle.

Here is my site:

http://port-80-mkqxe69shv.treehouse-app.com/catalog.php?cat=books

Here is a snapshot:

https://w.trhou.se/ewplig73bk

1 Answer

Matthew Bilz
Matthew Bilz
15,829 Points
Matthew Bilz
Matthew Bilz
15,829 Points

To address your page title variable, you have a double equals sign on top of you catalog.php when you are assigning the value to the $pagetitle variable, so I'd start with putting a single equals sign for 

$pagetitle = "music";
Ben Os
Ben Os
20,008 Points
Ben Os
Ben Os
20,008 Points

Indeed putting a single equal-sign vanished the "unidentified variable" error. You might have an insight on why my items won't appear in each category page?

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,592 Points

Hi Ben,

I would recommend that you review the video. Your array_category function is not complete.