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

Posted by mehdi elberriri
mehdi elberriri
926 Points

2/7

<?php $movie=array(); $movie[0]=["title"=>"The Empire Strikes Back"];

?> why its telling me to assign title

index.php 
<?php $movie=array();
$movie[0]=["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>

2 Answers

KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,971 Points
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,971 Points

If you do a var_dump of $movie you will see you have an array where the first element has a key of 0 and the value is another array. 

array(1) {                                                                      
  [0]=>                                                                         
  array(1) {                                                                    
    ["title"]=>                                                                 
    string(23) "The Empire Strikes Back"                                        
  }                                                                             
}

Adding an element with a key of "title" and a value of "The Empire Strikes Back" would just be:

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

result of var_dump

array(1) {                                                                      
  ["title"]=>                                                                   
  string(23) "The Empire Strikes Back"                                          
}
mehdi elberriri
mehdi elberriri
926 Points
mehdi elberriri
mehdi elberriri
926 Points

oh thanks !