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

Posted by Jonathan Tebb
Jonathan Tebb
672 Points

I'm not sure why the string 'title' in the $movie array is not printing on the page as a result of my lines 2 and 3.

I'm not sure why the string 'title' in the $movie array is not printing on the page as a result of my lines 2 and 3.

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

Meghan Tucker
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Meghan Tucker
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Meghan Tucker
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Meghan Tucker
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 33,189 Points

There are a couple small things in the code to watch out for: 1) (I'm not certain) but I'm pretty sure that php works similarly to CSS or Javascript in that you must declare things before you use them. Try putting your variable declaration first, so that when you reference your variable later the program knows what to pull from (please correct me if I'm wrong about that). 2) you're missing a semicolon to end your statement on line 3 ($movie = array(blah, blah); . and 3) I'm not sure if you have to do this, but it worked for me to place the statement referencing the year and the movie in its own php tag inside the <h1> tags, rather than pulling the <h1> tags out from the html section and into the php section. My end result looked like this:

<?php
  $movie = array("title" => "The Empire Strikes Back");
?>
<h1><?php echo $movie["title"] ; ?> (1985)</h1>
<table>

Hope this helps! Happy coding.

Jonathan Tebb
Jonathan Tebb
672 Points
Jonathan Tebb
Jonathan Tebb
672 Points

It works now I needed all three of those tips for it to work