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PHP

Posted by Dean Gray
Dean Gray
12,487 Points

Setting my conditional

Hi,

I'm doing a code challenge on php and I'm lost. Long story short I know my conditional is wrong. I just don't know how to fix it.

Question:

PalprimeChecker objects have a method called isPalprime(). This method does not receive any arguments. It returns true if the number property contains a palprime, and it returns false if the number property does not contain a palprime. (Tip: 17 is not a palprime.) Turn the second echo statement into a conditional that displays “is” or “is not” appropriately. The conditional should call the isPalprime method of the $checker object. If the isPalprime method returns true, then echo “is”; otherwise, echo “is not”.

My code

<?php

require("class.palprimechecker.php");
$checker = new PalprimeChecker();
$checker -> number = 17;



echo "The number" .$checker->number . " ";
if ($checker->Palprime()) {
   echo "is"; 
} else { 
   echo "is not";
}  

echo " a palprime.";

?>
eck
eck
43,038 Points

I added some Markdown formatting to make your code pretty ;)

If you want to know how to do that, plus some other things, check out the Markdown Cheatsheet that is right above the Post comment button.

1 Answer

eck
eck
43,038 Points

So I think your problem is that you called the method incorrectly.

<?php

// you wrote
if ($checker->Palprime()){}

// when what you need is
if ( $checker->isPalprime() ) {}

?>

Hope that helps!~

Dean Gray
Dean Gray
12,487 Points

Thank you for your help and your note about the mark up i did wonder how people did that,