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PHP Object-Oriented PHP Basics Building the Recipe Static

Posted by Damian Toczek
Damian Toczek
4,471 Points

Return the $size array as a string?

I don't understand what they want me to do. I tried it with return $size, but that returns the array itself. So i made a foreach loop and append it to a var named $output.. and then return $output.

index.php 
<?php

class Render {
    public static function displayDimensions($size){
      return $size;
    }
}

?>

1 Answer

KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,648 Points

The task is looking for the string "length x width". For this you can specify the individual elements concatenated with x as

 public static function displayDimensions($size){
      return $size[0] . ' x ' . $size[1];
    }
Damian Toczek
Damian Toczek
4,471 Points

Who the heck makes such things separate? If you have a dimension, you prob make it something like ['10cm x 20cm','5cm x 10cm']. If you make it something like ['10cm','50cm','14cm'] those are not dimensions, just random values inside an array. I was expecting something like ['10cm x 20cm']... Either they fix these arrays or they show how the array looks like.