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PHP

Posted by Hendrik Putzek
Hendrik Putzek
4,109 Points

Error Check in Quiz php-arrays-and-control-structures/php-conditionals/switch-statements

Context:

https://teamtreehouse.com/library/php-arrays-and-control-structures/php-conditionals/switch-statements

If I put in my code, which I also put here for reference https://gist.github.com/hputzek/f2d0fbe94497d8350d15898e7f0994c4

the test does not pass.

The reason is, that there is one whitespace too much in between "case" and "author"

case 'author':

This was quite annoying until I found what the error was. It would be nice to improve the testing routine of the quiz in a way that it does not fail because of whitespaces OR clearly state to the users that whitespaces and stuff like that can make a test fail.

Here is a screenshot: Example Screenshot

By removing one whitespace you can make the Quiz pass.

By the way: when I contacted your support part of the answer was:

"I just ran a code check on that code challenge and all tests came back as passing, thus there isn't anything broken and I show that multiple students have passed that Code Challenge in the past 24 hours."

My opinion about that: Sure other students have passed, it's not a problem everybody encounters. And concerning your automated tests: Why shouldn't they pass? They just do not cover my problem lol.