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PHP Enhancing a Simple PHP Application Cleaning URLs with Subfolders Server Paths and Constants

Robert Kulagowski
Robert Kulagowski
4,954 Points
Posted by Robert Kulagowski
Robert Kulagowski
4,954 Points

Can't complete challenge

I'm supposed to create a relative server path; I'm not sure why this isn't working:

<?php include("../../config/company.php"); ?>

I'm in "about/leadership", so two levels up should be the document root, containing the config directory, and then that should have the company.php

about/leadership/index.php 
<?php
include("../../config/company.php");
?>

<html>
<head>
     <title>Leadership | Shirts 4 Mike</title>
</head>
<body>

    <h1>Leadership</h1>
    <p><strong>Owner:</strong> ????</p>
    <p><a href="/contact/">Contact</a></p>

</body>
</html>
Konstantin Lopatin
Konstantin Lopatin
29,193 Points

for some reason that works:

<?php 
    include("./config/company.php");
?>

Looks like something's wrong in the challenge

1 Answer

Chris Adamson
Chris Adamson
132,143 Points
Chris Adamson
Chris Adamson
132,143 Points

It looks for the relative path from htdocs:

<?php
include("config/company.php");
?>

<html>
<head>
     <title>Leadership | Shirts 4 Mike</title>
</head>
<body>

    <h1>Leadership</h1>
    <p><strong>Owner:</strong> ????</p>
    <p><a href="/contact/">Contact</a></p>

</body>
</html>