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PHP Object-Oriented PHP Basics Building the Recipe Magic Methods

Diego Hernandez
Diego Hernandez
11,468 Points

Static (4 objectives)

Hello!

I'm having trouble getting though the second objective https://teamtreehouse.com/library/objectoriented-php-basics-2/building-the-recipe/static

The accepted parameter $size will be an array containing length and width in that order. Add a return value to the displayDimensions method that returns these values as a string "length x width".

class Render { public static function displayDimensions($size) {

}

}

I don't know where to place the array, I tried this from above but it didn't work: displayDimensions($size = array($length, $width)) { return ........ }

Can someone please tell me how to solve this?

Thanks1!!

2 Answers

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher

Hi there! The method you're defining accepts an array as a parameter. So really, you just need to access the array that's coming in and use the two elements to return the appropriate string. I'll show you how I did step 2 and then walk you through it.

<?php

class Render {

  public static function displayDimensions($size) {
    return $size[0] . " x " . $size[1];
  }   
}
?>

Here we define our method to accept a parameter named $size. The challenge explicitly says that length and width will be given in that order. Which means that length will be at the 0 index of the array, and the width will be at the 1 index of the array. But then we need to use those in conjunction with concatenation to return the elements with a " x " in between. Hope this helps! :sparkles:

Diego Hernandez
Diego Hernandez
11,468 Points

Thanks a lot Jennifer! You are the best!!!