Stuck on wordpress plugin code challenge: Using the JSON feed in the comments and the existing loop, echo out each of the course names inside list items

Question

On this challenge:

"Using the JSON feed in the comments and the existing loop, echo out each of the course names inside list items"

Im stuck, heres my code but it doesn't work:

<?php

/*
  {
"name": "Username",
"profile_name": "profile_username",
"profile_url": "http://myapi.net/profile_username"
"courses": [
  { "name": "WordPress Plugin Development" },
  { "name": "WordPress Theme Development" },
  { "name": "Introduction to PHP" }
]
  }
*/

?>
<ul>
  <?php for( $i = 0; $i < count($my_plugin_profile->courses); $i++ ): ?>

  <?php echo "<li> . $my_plugin_profile->{"name"} . </li>"; ?>

  <?php endfor; ?>
</ul>

Answer 1 · 2013-11-21T17:15:46Z

November 21, 2013 5:15pm

Hi Sam Thompson,

In this challenge you'll be using the $i variable to loop through the courses array. So your echo statement should contain

->courses[$i]->

inside the list item. If you need a refresher on arrays or PHP we have: http://teamtreehouse.com/library/introduction-to-programming/objects-and-arrays/arrays

http://teamtreehouse.com/library/build-a-simple-php-application/listing-inventory-items/introducing-arrays-2

Answer 2 · 2014-07-01T15:04:17Z

July 1, 2014 3:04pm

You are looping through the courses array and then need to pull the name item in that array Try this<br/><br/>

<?php echo $my_plugin_profile->{'courses'}[$i]->{'name'}; ?>

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Stuck on wordpress plugin code challenge: Using the JSON feed in the comments and the existing loop, echo out each of the course names inside list items

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