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PHP PHP Basics Daily Exercise Program Conditionals

Sasa Sanjic
Sasa Sanjic
963 Points
Posted by Sasa Sanjic
Sasa Sanjic
963 Points

Quiz with task to use three conditional statements

Hi guys

I made the code which is working in the console. I've tested all three conditions. But quiz will not pass me further. Where did I make mistake?

TASK = Check if each student has a GPA of 4.0. If the student has a GPA of 4.0, use the student's name variable to display "NAME made the Honor Roll". If not, use the variable to display "NAME has a GPA of GPA".

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.');
} elseif ($studentTwoGPA == 4.0) {
    echo ("$studentTwoName" . ' made the Honor Roll.');
} else {
    echo ("$studentOneName" . ' has a ' . "$studentOneGPA" . " of " . "$studentTwoGPA");
}

?>

3 Answers

Bapi Roy
Bapi Roy
14,237 Points
Bapi Roy
Bapi Roy
14,237 Points

change echo ("$studentOneName" . ' made the Honor Roll.');

to

echo $studentOneName . ' made the Honor Roll.';

Martin Balon
Martin Balon
43,651 Points
Martin Balon
Martin Balon
43,651 Points

Hi Sasa, problem is, that you have two students and therefore you need to print two sentences based on GPA of each student. Your code would only print one sentence - the conditional block would stop after else if - because the condition is true. Also, check the way you are echoing out sentences - if you put quotes around variable then you are not echoing out value stored in variable - you will actually echo just the name of the variable.

Here's the code that passes the challenge:

if ($studentOneGPA == 4.0) {
  echo $studentOneName . ' made the Honor Roll';
} else {
  echo $studentOneName . ' has a GPA of ' . $studentOneGPA;
}

if ($studentTwoGPA == 4.0) {
  echo $studentTwoName . ' made the Honor Roll';
} else {
  echo $studentTwoName . ' has a GPA of ' . $studentTwoGPA;
}
Sasa Sanjic
Sasa Sanjic
963 Points
Sasa Sanjic
Sasa Sanjic
963 Points

Thank you Bapi and Martin for your effort to help me. :-)