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PHP PHP Arrays and Control Structures PHP Arrays Multidimensional Arrays

Posted by Wouter Vermeersch
Wouter Vermeersch
6,913 Points

This makes no sense, the output looks good but it is'nt validated correct

my output is what there's asked for and coded right.

But it doesn't let me pass :/

index.php 
<?php
//edit this array
$contacts = array(
  array('name' => 'Alena Holligan'), 
  array('name' => 'Dave McFarland'), 
  array('name' => 'Treasure Porth'), 
  array('name' =>'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";
Wouter Vermeersch
Wouter Vermeersch
6,913 Points

<?php //edit this array $contacts = array( array('name' => 'Alena Holligan', 'email' => 'alena.holligan@teamtreehouse.com'), array('name' => 'Dave McFarland', 'email' => 'dave.mcfarland@teamtreehouse.com'), array('name' => 'Treasure Porth', 'email' => 'treasure.porth@teamtreehouse.com'), array('name' =>'Andrew Chalkley', 'email' => 'andrew.chalkley@teamtreehouse.com'));

echo "<ul>\n" echo "<li>" . $contacts[0]["name"] . " : " . $contacts[0]["email"] . "</li>\n"; echo "<li>" . $contacts[1]["name"] . " : " . $contacts[1]["email"] . "</li>\n"; echo "<li>" . $contacts[2]["name"] . " : " . $contacts[2]["email"] . "</li>\n"; echo "<li>" . $contacts[3]["name"] . " : " . $contacts[3]["email"] . "</li>\n"; echo "</ul>\n";

?>

whenever I post the last exercise it tells me that the first exercise doesn't pass anymore... this is so frustrating

2 Answers

andren
andren
28,558 Points
andren
andren
28,558 Points

The message about task 1 failing is often caused by your code having some error that crashes the code checker, in your case the issue is a typo in this line:

echo "<ul>\n"

You have forgotten a semicolon. If you add it like this:

<?php
$contacts = array(
    array(
        'name' => 'Alena Holligan',
        'email' => 'alena.holligan@teamtreehouse.com'
    ) ,
    array(
        'name' => 'Dave McFarland',
        'email' => 'dave.mcfarland@teamtreehouse.com'
    ) ,
    array(
        'name' => 'Treasure Porth',
        'email' => 'treasure.porth@teamtreehouse.com'
    ) ,
    array(
        'name' => 'Andrew Chalkley',
        'email' => 'andrew.chalkley@teamtreehouse.com'
    )
);
echo "<ul>\n"; // <- Added semicolon
echo "<li>" . $contacts[0]["name"] . " : " . $contacts[0]["email"] . "</li>\n";
echo "<li>" . $contacts[1]["name"] . " : " . $contacts[1]["email"] . "</li>\n";
echo "<li>" . $contacts[2]["name"] . " : " . $contacts[2]["email"] . "</li>\n";
echo "<li>" . $contacts[3]["name"] . " : " . $contacts[3]["email"] . "</li>\n";
echo "</ul>\n"; 
?>

Then your code passes the challenge.

Wouter Vermeersch
Wouter Vermeersch
6,913 Points
Wouter Vermeersch
Wouter Vermeersch
6,913 Points

Thank you, you're epic... I was so frustrated :)