pset7 Portfolio: Blank page

Question

After completing portfolio, page loads a black page. I'm king of lost when needs to display in HTML/PHP/CSS code. xyz_form is understood. See portfolio (view) code below. CSS format took from Google.

Answer 1

Looks like you mixed and matched the controller (C of MVC), and the view (V of MVC). Ideally, you want the controller to render the page to be viewed (let's call it portfoliopage.php). Controller will have the code, which should query mysql for the stocks held and store them in $positions array. You do not query mysql in your code above, which is why you are getting an empty $positions array. You can then use render function to pass $positions to portfoliopage.php. Portfoliopage.php, meanwhile, will contain all the html, including the table format, which is this part in your code above:

<?php 

                foreach ($positions as $position)
                {
                    print("<tr>");
                    print("<td>{$position["symbol"]}</td>");
                    print("<td>{$position["name"]}</td>");
                    print("<td>{$position["shares"]}</td>");
                    print("<td>{$position["price"]}</td>");
                    print("<td>{$position["total"]}</td>");
                    print("</tr>");
                }

            ?>

Also, your background formatting will not work as written above, you might want to consider using css for this.