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PHP Build a Simple PHP Application Listing Inventory Items Displaying All Products

Jerôme Naglé
Jerôme Naglé
14,189 Points
Posted by Jerôme Naglé
Jerôme Naglé
14,189 Points

Question about this video

When I add the .txt file into my shirts.php I get an error in the foreach loop.

Notice: Array to string conversion

Can you please help me

This is my code:

<?php

$products = array();

$products[101] = array( "name" => "Logo Shirt, Red", "img" => "img/shirts/shirt-101.jpg", "price" => 18 ); $products[102] = array( "name" => "Mike the Frog Shirt, Black", "img" => "img/shirts/shirt-102.jpg", "price" => 20 ); $products[103] = array( "name" => "Mike the Frog Shirt, Blue", "img" => "img/shirts/shirt-103.jpg", "price" => 20 ); $products[104] = array( "name" => "Logo Shirt, Green", "img" => "img/shirts/shirt-104.jpg", "price" => 18 ); $products[105] = array( "name" => "Mike the Frog Shirt, Yellow", "img" => "img/shirts/shirt-105.jpg", "price" => 25 ); $products[106] = array( "name" => "Logo Shirt, Gray", "img" => "img/shirts/shirt-106.jpg", "price" => 20 ); $products[107] = array( "name" => "Logo Shirt, Turquoise", "img" => "img/shirts/shirt-107.jpg", "price" => 20 ); $products[108] = array( "name" => "Logo Shirt, Orange", "img" => "img/shirts/shirt-108.jpg", "price" => 25, );

$pageTitle = 'Shirts Mike'; $section = 'shirts';

?>

<?php include('inc/header.php'); ?>

<div class="section page">

    <ul>
        <?php
        foreach ($products as $product) {
            ?>
            <li><?php echo $product; ?></li>
        <?php } ?>
    </ul>

    <h1>Full catalog of shirts</h1>
</div>

<?php include('inc/footer.php'); ?>

3 Answers

Agapito Cruz
Agapito Cruz
21,486 Points

Hello Jerome,

The $product variable holds an array of values that describes each shirt. PHP is saying that you are attempting to treat the array as a string when you use the echo command. I'm assuming you want to print the shirt's name, so you should replace the 

    <ul>
        <?php
        foreach ($products as $product) {
            ?>
            <li><?php echo $product; ?></li>
        <?php } ?>
    </ul>

with

    <ul>
        <?php
        foreach ($products as $product) {
            ?>
            <li><?php echo $product["name"; ?></li>
        <?php } ?>
    </ul>

I think this will help with your error messae.

I hope this helps,

-Agapito