Notice: Undefined offset: 0 in

Question

I am getting this PHP error, what does it mean?

Notice: Undefined offset: 0 in 
C:\\xampp\\htdocs\\mywebsite\\reddit_vote_tut\\src\\votes.php on line 41
         


        

Answer 1

You are asking for the value at key 0 of $votes. It is an array that does not contain that key.

The array $votes is not set, so when PHP is trying to access the key 0 of the array, it encounters an undefined offset for [0] and [1] and throws the error.

If you have an array:

$votes = array('1','2','3');

We can now access:

$votes[0];
$votes[1];
$votes[2];

If we try and access:

$votes[3];

We will get the error "Notice: Undefined offset: 3"