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PHP Build a Basic PHP Website (2018) Listing and Sorting Inventory Items Displaying Item Details

Posted by Aaron Grant
Aaron Grant
1,065 Points

I have a question about the teachers notes.

It says that we are supposed to replace the function get_item_id with the code 

<? php
function get_item_html($id,$item) {
    $output = "<li><a href='details.php?id="
        . $id . "'><img src='" 
        . $item["img"] . "' alt='" 
        . $item["title"] . "' />" 
        . "<p>View Details</p>"
        . "</a></li>";
    return $output;
}

What I want to know is where in the project are we supposed to do that.

Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,118 Points

edited code for formatting

Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,118 Points

As stated in the video, I think around 1:45, the teacher create a functions.php file. I would go back and watch the video starting around that point or from the beginning.

1 Answer

Sergey Podgornyy
Sergey Podgornyy
20,660 Points
Sergey Podgornyy
Sergey Podgornyy
20,660 Points

Aaron, you could replace your code in index.html, for example, using function get_item_html. It will be much clear:

<?php 
include("inc/data.php");
include("inc/functions.php");
$pageTitle = "Personal Media Library";
$section = null;
include("inc/header.php"); ?>
        <div class="section catalog random">

            <div class="wrapper">

                <h2>May we suggest something?</h2>

                <ul class="catalog">
                    <?php
                        $random = array_rand($catalog,4);
                        foreach($random as $id){
                            echo get_item_html($id,$catalog[$id]);
                        }
                    ?>
                </ul>

            </div>

        </div>

<?php include("inc/footer.php"); ?>

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