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PHP Build a Basic PHP Website (2018) Listing and Sorting Inventory Items Array Keys

what's wrong here? syntax error? line 17

How to make this work

index.php
<?php

$books["978-0743261690"] = "Gilgamesh";
$books["978-0060931957"] = "The Odyssey";
$books["978-0192840509"] = "Aesop's Fables";
$books["978-0520227040"] = "Mahabharta";
$books["978-0393320978"] = "Beowulf";

?><html>
<head>
    <title>Five Great Books</title>
</head>
<body>
    <h1>Five Great Books</h1>
    <ul>
        <?php foreach($books as $isbn => $book) { 
           $isnbok[$isbn] = $book[]; ?>
      <li><?php echo $isnbok; ?></li>
        <?php } ?>
    </ul>
</body>
</html>

1 Answer

Corey Montgomery
Corey Montgomery
18,468 Points

If looks like you are close, but over complicating things. You got the first part right with this code:

<?php foreach($books as $isbn => $book) { ?>

Now that the key has been assigned to the $isbn variable, all you have to do is edit the listing portion, where the book title is displayed. This can be accomplished in a few ways, but the below works fine. What we are doing here is concatenating the two variables and adding brackets around the isbn.

<li><?php echo $book . ' (' . $isbn . ')'; ?></li>

Hopefully this explanation helps.