STUCK ON TASK 5 OF 7 FOR ASSOCIATIVE ARRAYS

Hey Randy,

Good News, apparently something worked. I just copied and pasted my #2 option of using

<?php echo $movie["title"];?> (<?php echo $movie["year"]; ?>)

and it decided to pass, go figure.

anyway thanks for the help and for the great tutorials!

This is what i used to pass

<?php $movie = array("title" => "The Empire Strikes Back", "year" => "1980"); ?>

<h1><?php echo $movie["title"]; ?> (<?php echo $movie["year"]; ?>)</h1>

Breaking it down like this:

There is 2 blocks of php code inside the h1 tags

1: <?php echo $movie["title"]; ?> 2: ( <?php echo $movie["year"]; ?> ) This bit of code is inside the parentheses.

Hope this helps

Could you paste the whole code block in here? What you have looks more or less correct. (Either approach should work. In #1 you left out a space between the title of the movie and the parenthesis, but #2 looks correct.) The only thing I notice from these snippets of code is that the name of the movie should have "The" at the beginning, like this:

$movie["title"] = "The Empire Strikes Back";

I'm not sure if that's the problem or if you just accidentally omitted it when typing it here. If that is the problem, then step 3 should have given you a helpful hint about that. If that's not the problem, please paste the full code block here so I can take a look. It sounds like something minor is off.

Hey Randy thanks for the attempt, i was pretty sure my code was correct. the only thing i can think of is it can be as simple as a common syntax error. I do realize that i forgot a "The", although as you stated this was just a typo when typing on here. The error i get either seems to be A.) i get an error saying task 4 is no longer passing. or B.) Bummer Try again.

THIS IS THE TASK AT HAND:

Right now, the <h1> element has the year of the first movie as a static piece of text. Replace that with a PHP command to display the year of the second movie from the array. (Be sure to leave the parentheses intact.)

CODE

<?php $movie =array(
"title" => "The Empire Strikes Back",
"year" => "1980"
 ); ?>

<h1><?php echo $movie["title"];?> (1985)</h1>

<table>
<tr>
<th>Director</th>
<td>Robert Zemeckis</td>
</tr> 
<tr>
<th>IMDB Rating</th>
<td>8.5</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>IMDB Ranking</th>
<td>53</td>
</tr>
</table>

Now what i do is what i had discussed earlier with #1 and #2 trying to both concatenate the array or by not replacing the parenthesis and instead creating 2 separate php blocks.

I hope this helps clarify the issue I'm facing, if you could help me figure this out, would be much appreciated.

Excellent. Glad you got it working, and I'm glad you are enjoying the tutorials! :~)

I have similar problems with this code here is my code:

<?php

$movie["title"] = "The Empire Strikes Back"; $movie["year"] = 1980; ?> <h1><?php echo $movie["title"]; ?> (<?php echo $movie["year"]; ?>) </h1>

The code challenge is being a little too strict! You have added an extra space between the closing parenthesis and the closing H1 tag. It doesn't matter, but the code challenge isn't getting exactly what expects. Sorry about that!

I'll fix it shortly ... but in the meantime, you can change this line --

... echo $movie["year"]; ?>) </h1>

-- to this --

... echo $movie["year"]; ?>)</h1>

-- without a space before the closing H1 tag.

Does that help?

Yep! figured it out Thank you so much! before you know it Mark Zuckerberg will be giving me a call soon?

Just Kidd'in! LOL

This was a very demanding challenge! After hours of working on it, I finally got through it with this thread and other outside resources.

Thank god for this forum ... :D

It still doesn't like the closing h1 tag on a fresh line. Removing the spaces between the h1 tags and the php code works....

Hi - I have been trying various ways to get this task to work, but nothing is working at all.

I had already tried the ways listed in various forum listings on here before coming for help - and I see that what I have already tried, is listed here as correct. Here is what I have at the moment and all i'm getting is Bummer! Try again!

?php $movie = array( $movie = array( "title" => "The Empire Strikes Back", "year" => 1980 );

?><h1><?php echo $movie["title"]; ?> (<?php echo $movie["year"]; ?>)</h1>

I am guessing that there is probably a typo in there somewhere but my eyes have gone square from trying to get it to pass! lol

Thanks in advance for any help!

lol found the problem (duplicate text), typed it all out again and it worked...thanks anyway :)

Thanks Randy!

Is there any news on when the php & MySql series will start?

Cheers :-)

awesome! thanks for the link :)

Regarding quotation marks:

What is the correct protocol here? I got task 5 to pass without them, but it seems like most examples here use them as listed below:

<?php echo $movie["title"]; ?> (<?php echo $movie["year"]; ?>)

Are they really necessary in the case of movie title and year? I am hoping to program for pay at some point and want to know if I would be viewed as an amateur if I leave the quotation marks out.

My code do not pass and I can not figure out what's wrong with it.

<?php $movie = array ( "title" => "The Empire Strikes Back",
"year" => "1980" );?>

<h1><?php echo $movie["title"], ?> (<?php echo $movie["year"]; ?>)</h1>

I know know this thread is old but im having the save problem !! this is my code

<?php $movie = array( "title" => "The Empire Strikes Back", "year" => "1980", ); ?> <h1><?php echo $movie["title"] ?> <?php echo $movie"year" ?> </h1>

Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong here? <?php $movie = array(); $movie["title"] = "The Empire Strikes Back"; $movie["year"] = 1980; ?> <h1><?php echo $movie["title"];?>(<?php echo $movie["year"]; ?>)</h1>

Thanks!

Hi this is the way I've got the code to work:

<h1><?php echo $movie["title"];?> (<?php echo $movie["year"]; ?>)</h1>

THIS IS REFICULOUS!!!

<h1><?php echo $movie["title"] . " " . $movie["year"];?></h1> LIKE THIS IT WORKED

<h1> <?php echo $movie["title"] . " " . $movie["year"]; ?> </h1>

LIKE THIS IT DID NOT.... WHAT THE ACTUAL...?

This worked, but I feel it's not right.

<?php

$movie = [

"title" => "The Empire Strikes Back",

"year" => 1980,

];

?>

<h1><?php echo $movie["title"] . $movie["year"]; ?></h1>