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PHP PHP Arrays and Control Structures PHP Arrays Multidimensional Arrays

Joey G.
Joey G.
191 Points
Posted by Joey G.
Joey G.
191 Points

Challenge Task 1 of 3

I couldn't really understand what's being asked here. Do I have to put an array as a value to a key? Please explain the instructions in a more simpler version of it. TIA.

index.php 
<?php
//edit this array
$contacts = array('Alena Holligan', 'Dave McFarland', 'Treasure Porth', 'Andrew Chalkley');

echo "<ul>\n";
//$contacts[0] will return 'Alena Holligan' in our simple array of names.
echo "<li>Alena Holligan : alena.holligan@teamtreehouse.com</li>\n";
echo "<li>Dave McFarland : dave.mcfarland@teamtreehouse.com</li>\n";
echo "<li>Treasure Porth : treasure.porth@teamtreehouse.com</li>\n";
echo "<li>Andrew Chalkley : andrew.chalkley@teamtreehouse.com</li>\n";
echo "</ul>\n";
Jason Jones
Jason Jones
18,663 Points

Yes, you're on the right track. Instead of a single string, they want you to put an array at each one of the $contacts array elements and then assign a key of name to each value. It will make sense why they're doing this in the next few exercises.

Here is the solution:

$contacts = array( 
  array('name' => 'Alena Holligan'), 
  array('name' => 'Dave McFarland'), 
  array('name' => 'Treasure Porth'), 
  array('name' => 'Andrew Chalkley')
);