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bradleymorgan
1,464 PointsI'm getting stuck on Task 3 at the end. Why doesn't this work? $a = $integerOne * floatOne; echo $a;
Full code: <?php
//Place your code below this comment $integerOne = 1; $integerTwo = 2; $floatOne = 1.5;
var_dump($integerOne += 5); var_dump($integerTwo -= 1);
$a = $integerOne * $floatOne; echo $a;
?>
<?php
//Place your code below this comment
$integerOne = 1;
$integerTwo = 2;
$floatOne = 1.5;
var_dump($integerOne += 5);
var_dump($integerTwo -= 1);
$a = $integerOne * $floatOne;
echo $a;
?>
3 Answers
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherHi there! In the third step, the challenge is checking what is being printed to the screen. Your code should print one number to the screen. Instead, because you have 2 var_dump lines, it's printing three things to the screen. The challenge never asks you to do a var_dump and it's now throwing off the output.
For instance:
var_dump($integerOne += 5);
Should simply be:
$integerOne += 5;
Hope this helps!
Ahsan Parwez
3,139 PointsThis is working good but on a beginner level, here you don't need to use var_dump() because it dumps information about a variable. You can directly use like this $integerOne += 5 and eventually echo $a will provide you the desired results.
bradleymorgan
1,464 PointsThanks guys, that solved the issue I was having. I was confused because task 2 which used var_dump was passing so I didn't think that would cause task 3 to fail.