6/6 Seems to have some sort of bug

While I applaud codeacademy.com for providing such a great (and free) resource for learning programming, I will say that it is frustrating when you write perfectly valid code and the editor does not approve it and allow you to continue. I provided the following switch statement for this exercise which is 100% valid (and validates and functions in other PHP testing sites, like PHPTESTER.net) but does not here for whatever reason:

    <?php

    
    $dog = "doggie";
    
    switch($dog) {
        case "Woodle":
            echo "That's a woodle!";
            break;
             
        case "Lab":
            echo "That's a lab!";
            break;
            
        case "German Shepard":
            echo "That's a German Shepard!";
            break;
            
        default:
            echo "You need to give me a dog I know!";
            
    }

?>

Hi Dania,

It’s looking for unreasonable parameters

Not at all. The instructions for 6/6 are very clear and easy to follow if you’ve been paying attention.

it’s happened where I refresh and paste whatever I just did and it works all of a sudden.

You probably just needed to wait a few seconds for the code to update before refreshing, but yes, that’s a common procedure for debugging a problem.

After browsing for an answer, this works: $i=3 switch($i): case 1: case 2: case 3: echo "i is between 1 and 3"; break;break;break; default:break; endswitch;

That code is terrible. It doesn’t pass for me, and the only reason it passes for you is because it’s so terrible you broke the SCT (Submission Correctness Test; code checker). It’s pretty easy to write a valid switch statement that will pass you and not throw a PHP error. If you don’t remember how, look at step 2/6 :)

Hi Dania,

There are a lot of problems with this course and people have been raising them for a long time. For some reason it looks like the editor doesn’t always update its memory to the most recent code you’ve entered.

If you could post a copy of your code for it before you used the answer above someone might be able to see if it was an error with the code or the editor (probably the editor but you never know).

Tim

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