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PHP PHP Basics Daily Exercise Program Conditionals

Posted by nicolabell
nicolabell
18,212 Points

Error is ' Bummer! You will need to create separate if statements for each student' but I have - output is working fine

The output looks fine for this although the line breaks are not working- is this what's stopping this from passing?

index.php 
<?php
$studentOneName = 'Dave';
$studentOneGPA = 3.8;

$studentTwoName = 'Treasure';
$studentTwoGPA = 4.0;

//Place your code below this comment
if ($studentOneGPA == 4.0) {
 echo $studentOneName . " made the Honor Roll" . "\n"; 
} elseif ($studentOneGPA != 4.0) {
 echo $studentOneName . " has GPA of " .  $studentOneGPA . "\n";
}

if ($studentTwoGPA == 4.0) {
 echo $studentTwoName . " made the Honor Roll" . "\n"; 
} elseif ($studentTwoGPA != 4.0) {
 echo $studentTwoName . " has GPA of " .  $studentOneGPA . "\n";
}
?>
jessecarter
jessecarter
8,444 Points

Your last echo looks off I think it should be $studentTwoGPA and not $studentOneGPA

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Hi there! The Bummer! message may be a bit misleading here, but the idea is that the grade is either 4.0 (perfect) or it isn't. There is no other option, so it's wanting these in an "if/else" statement, but you're using elseif. Once you change your elseif to an else statement, you will start receiving another "Bummer!" about not getting the right output. Currently you are printing " has GPA of", but the instructions say to print "has a GPA of". Note the omission of the indefinite article "a" in your version.

Although, this doesn't affect the challenge, the echo in the elseif statement is a bit incorrect. Had that executed you would echo out the name of student two and the grade of student one. Also, for some reason, you are doing a lot of unnecessary concatenation, which works just fine, but in my opinion makes your code a bit less readable and more complicated to follow. I'll show you how I did the first one:

if ($studentOneGPA == 4.0) {
 echo "$studentOneName made the Honor Roll\n"; 
} else{
 echo "$studentOneName has a GPA of $studentOneGPA\n";  // note the addition of the word "a" here 
}

Hope this helps! :sparkles:

nicolabell
nicolabell
18,212 Points

Yasss that worked! Thank you that was really useful :)