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PHP PHP Arrays and Control Structures PHP Loops Ping Pong

Posted by Yoel Dovid Cohen
Yoel Dovid Cohen
13,405 Points

Workspaces Not working

In this workspasces when I run it I get: PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ';' in /home/treehouse/workspace/ping_p ong.php on line 18 But what am I doing wrong

<?php $player1 = 0; $player2 = 0; $round = 0;

//var_dump(abs($player1-$player2)); //var_dump($player2-$player1); /* TO WIN A WLAYER MUST REACH 11 AND BE HIGHER THAN THE OTHER BY 2 WHILE NOT MET RANDOMLY INCREMETN ON SCORE EACH ROUND

*/

while ((abs($player1 - $player2))<2 || ($player1 < 11 && $player2 < 11)) { $round++; echo "<h2>Round $round</h2>\n"; if (rand(0,1) { $player1++; } else { $player2++; } echo "Player1 = $player1<br />\n"; echo "Player2 = $player2<br />\n"; } echo "<h1>"; if ($player1 > $player 2) { echo "Player 1"; } else { echo "Player 2"; } echo " is the winner after $round rounds!</h1>\n";

?>

1 Answer

kevin hudson
PLUS
kevin hudson
Courses Plus Student 11,987 Points
kevin hudson
kevin hudson
Courses Plus Student 11,987 Points

Same issue I had this means you do not have something closed in your code. Looking at your code it looks like you forgot to put another parenthesis around the if statment after rand() 

if(rand(0,1)){
    $player1++;
  } else {
    $player2++;
  }