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PHP PHP Arrays and Control Structures PHP Arrays Multidimensional Arrays

david prior
david prior
847 Points

Should $contacts be an array that has multiple associative $name arrays in it?

I tried setting this up $contacts = array($name[] = ['Alena' => "alena@email.com"], $name[] = ['Dave' => "Dave@email.com"], etc. Is this not the right was to go?

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@teamtreehous)m</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";

$contacts = array(
$name[] = [
  array('Alena Holligan' => "alena.holligan@teamtreehouse.com")
    ],
$name[] = [
  array('Dave McFarland' => "dave.mcfarland@teamtreehouse.com")
    ],
$name[] = [
  array('Treasure Porth' => "treasure.porth@teamtreehouse.com")
    ],
$name[] = [
  array('Andrew Chalkley' => "andrew.chalkley@teamtreehouse.com")
    ],
);

var_dump($contacts);

1 Answer

raco ruru
raco ruru
21,830 Points

You have to create a multimensionnal array. Array contacts must contains array associative ('name' as key) For that, you have to put your answer at line 3.

$contacts = [['name'=>'Alena Holligan']];