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PHP

Robbie Thomas
Robbie Thomas
31,093 Points
Posted by Robbie Thomas
Robbie Thomas
31,093 Points

Building a Media Library in PHP issue

I have completed the above titled lesson here on Treehouse under Build a Basic PHP Website. However, at the last video, I swear I followed along just right with the header.php file. However, I'm getting a error on line 16.

Here is the code for header.php:

<html>
<head>
    <title><?php echo $pageTitle; ?></title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css" type="text/css">
</head>
<body>

    <div class="header">

        <div class="wrapper">

            <h1 class="branding-title"><a href="./">Personal Media Library</a></h1>

            <ul class="nav">
                <li class="books<?php if ($section == "books" { echo " on"; } ?>"><a href="catalog.php?cat=books">Books</a></li>
                <li class="movies<?php if ($section == "movies" { echo " on"; } ?>"><a href="catalog.php?cat=movies">Movies</a></li>
                <li class="music<?php if ($section == "music" { echo " on"; } ?>"><a href="catalog.php?cat=music">Music</a></li>
                <li class="suggest<?php if ($section == "suggest" { echo " on"; } ?>"><a href="suggest.php">Suggest</a></li>
            </ul>

        </div>

    </div>

    <div id="content">

Sorry if I don't have the proper backing for the code, it doesn't seem to allow me to do that here for some reason. Any help on why I'm getting the error will be helpful. Thanks!

1 Answer

Kent Åsvang
Kent Åsvang
18,823 Points
Kent Åsvang
Kent Åsvang
18,823 Points 
<ul class="nav">
                <li class="books<?php if ($section == "books" ) /* <- closing parenthesis */ { echo " on"; } ?>"><a href="catalog.php?cat=books">Books</a></li>
                <li class="movies<?php if ($section == "movies") /* <- closing parenthesis */{ echo " on"; } ?>"><a href="catalog.php?cat=movies">Movies</a></li>
                <li class="music<?php if ($section == "music") /* <- closing parenthesis */ { echo " on"; } ?>"><a href="catalog.php?cat=music">Music</a></li>
                <li class="suggest<?php if ($section == "suggest")/* <- closing parenthesis */  { echo " on"; } ?>"><a href="suggest.php">Suggest</a></li>
            </ul>

You have forgotten a closing parenthesis on your if-statements. Should work fine after you include them =)

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

changed from comment to answer

Robbie Thomas
Robbie Thomas
31,093 Points
Robbie Thomas
Robbie Thomas
31,093 Points

Thanks, boy do I feel like a dummy!