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

Posted by Jacob McKinney
Jacob McKinney
2,842 Points

relative include path isn't working

This code challenge is asking me to include the file at htdocs/config/company.php in the file htdocs/about/leadership/index.php via a relative path.

When I include the file using include '../../config/company.php'; it is saying that I failed to include the file. I've tried every relative path I can think of and cannot get it to accept my answer.

Can anyone shed some light on what I might be doing wrong?

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>

1 Answer

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Hi Jacob,

What you tried should be correct based on the instructions. However, there's currently a problem with this challenge.

For now, just to get past task 2 treat the "config" folder as if it's inside of the "leadership" folder. In other words, both the index file that you're in and the "config" folder are together inside the "leadership" folder. Others have figured out that this is how the challenge is treating it.

Jacob McKinney
Jacob McKinney
2,842 Points

Thanks so much! I thought I was going crazy lol