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PHP Build a Simple PHP Application Listing Inventory Items Associative Arrays

Posted by Rogean Edwards
Rogean Edwards
7,101 Points

Syntax structure

I don' t think my syntax structure is quite right. I'm missing something.

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


<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>
Rogean Edwards
Rogean Edwards
7,101 Points

Thanks alot! It was so simple yet easy to miss.

1 Answer

Andrew Shook
Andrew Shook
31,709 Points

Rogean, your array syntax is correct, however, you concatenation syntax is incorrect. Right now you are trying to concatenate a string with an number "(1985)":

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


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

What you need to do is put (1985) in quotes like so:

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


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