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

Tong Vang
Tong Vang
9,926 Points
Posted by Tong Vang
Tong Vang
9,926 Points

Root-relative links

File name is index.php. Located in about/leadership subfolder. Web address is localhost/about/leadership/index.php.

I had "/index.php" as the answer but it did not work. I thought "/" was to let the server to start from the root and look down to the index.php in the different folders.

Whats going?

4 Answers

Jeff Busch
Jeff Busch
19,287 Points
Jeff Busch
Jeff Busch
19,287 Points 
<p><a href="/contact/">Contact</a></p>
Tong Vang
Tong Vang
9,926 Points
Tong Vang
Tong Vang
9,926 Points

It thought that too...

Could not open input file: about/leadership/index.php

<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>```

This is the result I got.  It started with ```<a href="contact/">Contact</a>``` .  I added the "/" to the front of contact first.
Jeff Busch
Jeff Busch
19,287 Points
Jeff Busch
Jeff Busch
19,287 Points

This code passed all three questions.

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

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

    <h1>Leadership</h1>
    <p><strong>Owner:</strong><?php echo " ".$owner;?></p>
    <p><a href="/contact/">Contact</a></p>

</body>
</html>