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PHP PHP Arrays and Control Structures PHP Conditionals Switch Statements

Posted by Sascha Cajandig
Sascha Cajandig
4,033 Points

PHP switch challenge Help Please

This is the challenge,

In the code provided, there are two if statements. The second if statement displays a message IF the user role is not equal to "admin". We want to display separate messages based on the role of the logged in user. First we're going to add a message for our admin and keep the current message as the default. Step 1: Change the second if statement to a switch statement, keeping the current message as the default. Step 2: Add a second check to the switch statement for the role of "admin" and display the following message: As an admin, you can add, edit, or delete any post.

This is my code below... I keep getting a syntax error for line 9.

switch.php 
<?php
//Available roles: admin, editor, author, subscriber
if (!isset($role)) {
    $role = 'subscriber';
}

//change to switch statement
switch($role != 'admin') {
    echo "You do not have access to this page. Please contact your administrator.";
    break;
  case "admin":
    echo "As an admin, you can add, edit, or delete any post.";
      break;
}

5 Answers

Christopher Debove
PLUS
Christopher Debove
Courses Plus Student 18,373 Points
Christopher Debove
Christopher Debove
Courses Plus Student 18,373 Points

Hi there! In PHP the switch take a variable and compare it to values specified in the cases :

What the exercise tell you is to transform it in switch, therefore, the variable you want to compare is $role, so :

<?php
switch($role) {}
?>

Then you have to add a case for $role with the value "admin", and keep the condition where $role !== admin:

<?php
switch($role) {
  case "admin":
    echo "As an admin, you can add, edit, or delete any post.";
  break;
  default:
    echo "You do not have access to this page. Please contact your administrator.";
  break;
}
?>
mes ks
mes ks
69 Points

i didn't get it

Zachary Scott
Zachary Scott
1,650 Points
Zachary Scott
Zachary Scott
1,650 Points

This worked for me:

<?php
//Available roles: admin, editor, author, subscriber
if (!isset($role)) {
    $role = 'subscriber';
}

//change to switch statement
switch($role) {
  case "admin":
    echo "As an admin, you can add, edit, or delete any post.";
  break;
  default:
    echo "You do not have access to this page. Please contact your administrator.";
  break;
}
?>
Jordan Jenks
Jordan Jenks
9,351 Points

gracious

Yoyo Monsell
Yoyo Monsell
385 Points
Yoyo Monsell
Yoyo Monsell
385 Points 
<?php
//Available roles: admin, editor, author, subscriber
if (!isset($role)) {
    $role = 'subscriber';
}

//change to switch statement
switch($role) {
  case "admin":
    echo "As an admin, you can add, edit, or delete any post.";
  break;
  default:
    echo "You do not have access to this page. Please contact your administrator.";
  break;
}
Sascha Cajandig
Sascha Cajandig
4,033 Points
Sascha Cajandig
Sascha Cajandig
4,033 Points

Thank you so much!! I really appreciate your explanation.

Armando Rosas
Armando Rosas
4,505 Points

Thank you for posting this Sascha.

I wrote "As admin, you..." instead of "As an admin, you...".

I kept changing the code and playing with alternative syntax and couldn't get it right until I saw your code and realized I simply had a misspelling error.

nicolabell
nicolabell
18,212 Points
nicolabell
nicolabell
18,212 Points

I had a problem with this one but it was because I had capitalised the word 'case' - d'oh!