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PHP Build a Basic PHP Website (2018) Listing and Sorting Inventory Items Introducing Functions

Posted by David Ryan
David Ryan
Courses Plus Student 14,981 Points

Can someone explain this since it's impossible to search this challenge in the treehouse community.

Treehouse link the challenges and quizes to the community instead of us having to search through the whole community. Soap box over.

Brain fart on what to do here.

index.php 
<?php

$numbers = array(1,5,8);

$sum = 0;
foreach($numbers as $number) {
    $sum = $sum + $number;
}

echo $sum;

?>

3 Answers

Matthew Smart
Matthew Smart
12,567 Points
Matthew Smart
Matthew Smart
12,567 Points

What is your question? You want us to explain how the code above works?

  1. You're creating an array to hold the values 1,5 and 8.
  2. Create $sum variable ready for use in the foreach loop
  3. Foreach( $numbers as $number ) is saying that for every number inside the array.

  4. inside the loop you are saying:

       $sum = $sum + $number;     //$sum is equal to 0.

So as you go through each number it is saying add those numbers together. 

1st loop    $sum = $sum + $number   //  0   =   0   +  1    
2nd loop  $sum = $sum + $number   //  1   =   1   +  5
3rd loop   $sum = $sum + $number   //  6   =   6   +  8

As you can see each loop the $sum variable has added a number from the array to itself.

Once the loop ends as there isn't any values left in the array, you are using echo $sum. This means print out to the page whatever value the variable $sum holds.

Jaro Schwab
Jaro Schwab
8,957 Points
Jaro Schwab
Jaro Schwab
8,957 Points

Hey.. You need to modify the code so it uses the "array_sum" method.. Instead of using the foreach loop, use the native array_sum Methode.. This is what the code should look like:

<?php

$numbers = array(1,5,8);
$sum = array_sum($numbers);

echo $sum;

?>
David Ryan
PLUS
David Ryan
Courses Plus Student 14,981 Points
David Ryan
David Ryan
Courses Plus Student 14,981 Points

Okay awesome thank you both for the explanations!