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PHP Object-Oriented PHP Basics Building the Recipe Associative Arrays

PUBLIC FUNCTION addIngredients

I DONT KNOW WHAT WRONG

<?php
  public function addIngredient($item, $amount = null, $measure = null)
  {
    if ($amount !=null && !is_float($amount) && !is_int($amount)){
      exit("The amount must be a float: " . gettype($amount). "$amount given");
    }
      if ($measure !=null && !is_array(strtolower($measure), $this->measurements)){
      exit("Please enter a valid measurement:" . implode(", ", $this->measurements));
  }
      $this->ingredients[]= array{//LINE 47
      "item" => ucwords($item),
      "amount" => $amount,
      "measure" => strtolower($measure)
    };
  }

?>

AND ERRO

 PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected '{', expecting 
'(' in /home/treehouse/workspace/classes/recipes.php on li
ne 47  

1 Answer

Simon Coates
Simon Coates
28,694 Points

array method uses (), so array(, not array{