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PHP Build a Basic PHP Website (2018) Listing and Sorting Inventory Items Associative Arrays

jose rodriguez
jose rodriguez
16,524 Points
Posted by jose rodriguez
jose rodriguez
16,524 Points

Title.... I have assigned it to an array and it is asking me if I have assigned a value to "title". What is wrong?

the second part of this is telling me to add an element with the key "title" and assign it the value of "The Empire Strikes Back" what am i doing wrong on my code where it asks me if i have assigned a value for title?

index.php 
<?php
$movie[] = [];
$movie[] =[ 'title' => 'The Empire Strikes Back' ];

?>

<h1>Back to the Future (1985)</h1>

<table>
  <tr>
    <th>Director</th>
    <td>Robert Zemeckis</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <th>IMDB Rating</th>
    <td>8.5</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <th>IMDB Ranking</th>
    <td>53</td>
  </tr>
</table>

1 Answer

Corey Cramer
Corey Cramer
9,453 Points

After you instantiate your $movie array you do not need to have the extra brackets. It still resolves to the same thing but the tests on the website are fairly particular about what they're looking for

<?php
$movie = [];
$movie = [ 'title' => 'The Empire Strikes Back'];
?>

Or even more concise, after you make the empty array you can just come back in the following step and immediately fill it with something. In your own code, you probably wouldn't/shouldn't open an empty array and on another line put content in it.

<?php
$movie = [ 'title' => 'The Empire Strikes Back' ];
?>
jose rodriguez
jose rodriguez
16,524 Points
jose rodriguez
jose rodriguez
16,524 Points

Thank you for your help!! this worked!