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PHP PHP Basics (Retired) PHP Conditionals & Loops PHP Loops Challenge

Agustin Villa
Agustin Villa
1,695 Points
Posted by Agustin Villa
Agustin Villa
1,695 Points

With the preview the array seems to display properly. Error is that i am not using the same array which i defined

Any help would be awesome. Thanks

Casey Ydenberg
Casey Ydenberg
15,622 Points
Casey Ydenberg
Casey Ydenberg
15,622 Points

Please post the code you have tried.

1 Answer

iainwb
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iainwb
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iainwb
iainwb
Courses Plus Student 2,437 Points

I had this error too, it appears if you (as an example) do the following it fails:

<?php
  $names = array('Mike', 'Chris', 'Jane', 'Bob');

  foreach( $names as $person ){
    echo $person;
  }
?>

This is because the Challenge checker sees a problem with the extra spaces in the foreach parenthesis. If you change this to the following it works (I've literally just removed the space before $name and after $person):

<?php
  $names = array('Mike', 'Chris', 'Jane', 'Bob');

  foreach($names as $person){
    echo $person;
  }
?>

This said, the top example that fails the Challenge works if you actually create this in Workspaces or on a web server. I don't know whether it's considered a bad practice to add the spaces or not, or if it's just a quirk of the Challenge checker?