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PHP File Handling with PHP Basic File Handling Reading Files

Glen Rose
Glen Rose
7,108 Points
Posted by Glen Rose
Glen Rose
7,108 Points

strtolower challenge wont be acceptet

Hi

I´m watching a video on PHP Filehandling, and there is a challenge that I cant get accepted.

This is the 3 task out of 3, and the task is to make the filenames which contains the word "fun" to lowercase and display it after the <h3> title.

I have written the code which is attached and it works, but I wont get accepted.

Does anyone know why?

index.php 
<?php
$dir = "example";
$files = scandir($dir);

foreach($files as $file) {

    if (strpos($file, "fun")) {

      echo "<h3>" . $file . "</h3>";
      echo strtolower($file);

      }elseif (strpos($file, "fun") === 0){

       echo "<h3>" . $file . "</h3>";
       echo strtolower($file);
    }

}

1 Answer

Heidi Fryzell
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Heidi Fryzell
Front End Web Development Treehouse Moderator 25,178 Points
Heidi Fryzell
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Heidi Fryzell
Front End Web Development Treehouse Moderator 25,178 Points

Hi Glen,

I don't have a lot of experience with PHP but I found some other answers in the community section. If you copy the instructions from the challenge/task you are stuck on into the search on the community page you can sometimes find previous questions/answers.

Your code passed the first 2 tasks but then wasn't passing the 3rd. It looks like it has something to do with the way you were trying to display the file's content. Your <h3> tag seemed to be working but the content underneath was not.

Also, you use an "if" and an "esleif" statement. The code I found that passes uses an "if" and an "else".

Here is some code that will pass the 3rd task.

<?php
$dir = "example";
$files = scandir($dir);

$files = scandir('example');
foreach($files as $file){
  if(strpos($file, 'fun') === false){
    //do nothing
  }else{
    echo "<h3>$file</h3>";
    echo strtolower(file_get_contents('example/'.$file));
  }
}

I hope this helps and sorry I can't explain the code a little bit better.

Happy coding!

Glen Rose
Glen Rose
7,108 Points
Glen Rose
Glen Rose
7,108 Points

Thanks a lot..... strange problem, but I wil try searching the community next time using some of the text. I tried searching the community, but couldnt find anything, but thats proberly because I didnt use the text from the task