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lyonel scapino
14,191 PointsWeird error message on the browser
I have this message :
notice: array to string conversion in c:\xampp\htdocs\shirts.php on line 21 (displaying on Chrome)
While my code on shirts.php did not move:
<?php foreach ($products as $product => $product_id) {
echo "<li>";
echo '<a href="shirt.php?id=' . $product_id . '">' ;
echo '<img src="' . $product["img"] . '" alt="' . $product["name"] . '">';
echo "<p>View Details</p>";
echo "</a>";
echo "</li>"; } ?>
(note that line 21 is the href line)
How come?
4 Answers
patrick kellogg
7,579 Pointstry using curly braces to surround all your associative array elements like this:
{$product["img"]}
{$product["name"]}
but carlos' advice is dead on
Carlos Morales
13,880 PointsI find it easier to break in and out of php and html. For example:
<?php
foreach ($products as $product => $product_id)
{
?>
<div>
<?php echo "anything you want between the neatly formatted html" ?>
</div>
<?php
}
?>
This way, debugging your program will be much easier than using concatenation. I hope this helps.
lyonel scapino
14,191 PointsI admit concatenation is not easy to read. But at some point if I want to dynamically generate some HTML I have to mingle it with PHP right?
Carlos Morales
13,880 PointsYup! Here is a link to a video on the subject: http://teamtreehouse.com/library/build-a-simple-php-application/listing-inventory-items/mingling-php-and-html
I think it's the best way to solve the issue you're having.
lyonel scapino
14,191 Pointslyonel scapino
14,191 Pointsgives me an unexpected curly braces message. thks anyway.