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

Cheng Cgc
Cheng Cgc
7,192 Points
Posted by Cheng Cgc
Cheng Cgc
7,192 Points

What Wrong With My Code?

is there anything wrong with my coding...?

index.php 
<?php
$movie =array ();
$movie["title"]="The Empire Strikes Back";
?>
<?php
echo "<h1>";
echo $movie["title"];
echo "(1985)";
echo "</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

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Hi Cheng,

First, create the (associative) array $movie, which stores the key "title" with the value "The Empire Strikes Back". You could do that like so:

<?php 
$movie = array("title" => "The Empire Strikes Back");   
?>

Adding more items to your array can simply be done like this (you'll have to do this later during the challenge):

<?php 
$movie = array("title" => "The Empire Strikes Back", "example" => "Value of Example");   
?>

Now that you have the the movie title stored within your array, you should replace the current movie title within the h1 tags with the movie title stored in the array, whilst leaving the year in tact. Remove the current title within the h1 tags and echo the value of "title" right there instead.

You could do so like this:

<?php
$movie = array("title" => "The Empire Strikes Back");  
?>

<h1><?php echo $movie["title"] . " " . "(1985)";?></h1>

<table>
...

This code will display "The Empire Strikes Back (1985)" as the h1.

Another option would be this (which I assume is the way you tried to complete the exercise):

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

<h1><?php echo $movie['title'] . " " . "(1985)" ?></h1>

I hope this helps! :)