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PHP Build a Basic PHP Website (2018) Listing and Sorting Inventory Items Associative Arrays

Mahfuzur Rahman
Mahfuzur Rahman
3,204 Points
Posted by Mahfuzur Rahman
Mahfuzur Rahman
3,204 Points

the value assigned to the "title" key is not being accepted

I tried a number of times. But it's not working. Interchanged with double/single quotes, nothing is working

index.php 
<?php 
$movie[]=[
'title'=> 'The Empire Strikes Back',
];


?>
<h1>Back to the Future (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>

1 Answer

Thomas Pichler
Thomas Pichler
3,818 Points
Thomas Pichler
Thomas Pichler
3,818 Points

Right now you are saving your array, into an array instead of just creating an array. Either remove the [] in the variable name or access the title attribute with $movie[0]['title'] since the array in your code up there gets written into an empty array first.

// Creates $movie['title'];

$movie = ['title' => 'The empire strikes back'];


// Creates $movie[0]['title'];

$movie[] = ['title' => 'The empire strikes back'];
Mahfuzur Rahman
Mahfuzur Rahman
3,204 Points
Mahfuzur Rahman
Mahfuzur Rahman
3,204 Points

Thanks for reaching out. So, your first example creates only an associative array. And the second one creates a multidimensional array and inside an associative. Is my understanding correct?

Thomas Pichler
Thomas Pichler
3,818 Points
Thomas Pichler
Thomas Pichler
3,818 Points

Yes, your understanding is correct. :)