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PHP Build a Basic PHP Website (2018) Listing and Sorting Inventory Items Displaying All Items

Posted by Eric Griswold
Eric Griswold
Courses Plus Student 5,303 Points

syntax error, unexpected '"stars"' (T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING), expecting ']' in /home/treehouse/workspace/inc/data.php

Here is my code: <?php

This is the associated array that keeps breaking. it breaks on the line that reads "stars" => [

$catalog[201] = [ "title" => "Forrest Gump", "img" => "img/media/forest_gump.jpg", "genre" => "Drama", "format" => "DVD", "year" => 1994, "category" => "Movies", "director" => "Robert Zemeckis", "writers" => [ "Winston Groom", "Eric Roth", ] "stars" => [ "Tom Hanks", "Rebecca Williams", "Sally Field", "Michael Conner Humphreys", ] ]

Corey Johnson
Corey Johnson
Courses Plus Student 10,192 Points
Corey Johnson
Corey Johnson
Courses Plus Student 10,192 Points

Hello Eric,

You have some extra commas and you are missing a comma. It is easier to see when you use indenting. Here is the corrected code. I hope this helps.

$catalog[201] = [
        "title" => "Forrest Gump",
        "img" => "img/media/forest_gump.jpg",
        "genre" => "Drama",
        "format" => "DVD",
        "year" => 1994,
        "category" => "Movies",
        "director" => "Robert Zemeckis",
        "writers" => [
                "Winston Groom",
                "Eric Roth"
        ],
        "stars" => [
                "Tom Hanks",
                "Rebecca Williams",
                "Sally Field",
                "Michael Conner Humphreys"
        ]
];