Displaying Item Details

Let's create a new div with the class="media-details". 0:04 First, we'll put the title within the h1 tags. 0:14 Next, we'll create a table with the item details. 0:28 We'll start by creating a row for category. 0:37 Table header is category. 0:44 Now, we'll pull our echo 0:53 $item["category"]. 0:58 Now, let's copy and past this row three times. 1:03 We'll change this for Genre. 1:10 Format. 1:15 And Year. 1:21 These are the shared attributes for all the items in the catalog. 1:26 Each of our categories also has some specific attributes. 1:30 We'll use a conditional to check our category and 1:34 display the attributes associated with each category. 1:36 Once again, we'll use our string to lower function to make our categories match. 1:39 If the item category ==" books", we'll want to show the authors, 1:55 publishers and ISBN. 1:59 Let's close off our PHP and we'll open it around our end tag. 2:03 Let's copy our category row and paste it three times. 2:10 Now we'll switch out Authors, 2:22 Publisher. 2:30 ISBN. 2:36 Let's preview the page now. 2:41 You'll see that we have most of our details, but 2:42 we're getting a notice array to string conversion, instead of our authors. 2:45 Authors are another array nested within our item. 2:51 What we want to do is print out a string of each of the authors separated 2:54 by a comma. 2:57 We could do this with a for each loop like we've done before. 2:58 However, we don't want to add anything to the beginning or end of our string, 3:01 just in between the elements. 3:05 Luckily for us, PHP has another function that will do just that, implode. 3:08 Implode takes two parameters and joins the array pieces into a string. 3:13 The first parameter is the string you want to use to separate the elements and 3:18 the second parameter is the array itself. 3:22 The string separator can be anything or group of things such as HTML. 3:25 This can be really useful if you want to make a list of items in HTML. 3:30 Let's take a look at this in our code. 3:34 In this case, we want to echo out implode, a comma and 3:37 a space between each of the authors in our array. 3:43 Now when we refresh the browser, 3:50 we see our list of authors separated by a comma and a space. 3:53 We need to add a conditional for our last two categories. 3:58 Let's clean up this if line. 4:02 And copy it and paste it right before our closing statement. 4:09 We'll add a closing curly braces and then an else. 4:17 If our category item equals movies. 4:22 We're gonna copy one line of Publisher and 4:28 change it to Director. 4:34 And then we're going to copy our implode. 4:40 And paste it two times for 4:48 Writers And Stars. 4:51 Finally, we'll copy and paste this else if statement one more time. 5:01 And change it to music. 5:11 We can copy Director and paste this row and change it to Artist. 5:15 Now we're ready to preview our page again. 5:28 Nothing has changed for our book. 5:31 But if we change our ID from 101 to 201, 5:33 we see Forrest Gump with our director, writers and stars. 5:39 If we change to 301, we see our music of 5:46 Beethoven with our artist, Ludwig van Beethoven. 5:49