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Posted by John Glynn
John Glynn
8,239 Points

Server paths and constraints challenge 2/3

Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? I've tried a bunch of different combinations and can't seem to get this to work...

The question: There is a file located at htdocs/config/company.php on the server. We need to include that file to get access to some of information about the company. At the very top of the file below, before any of the HTML, include that company.php file using a relative server path.

My code: <?php include("/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>

4 Answers

John Glynn
John Glynn
8,239 Points
John Glynn
John Glynn
8,239 Points

This ended up working for me but I don't really understand why. I thought $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] ...starts from the root. Why did I need to then go back two directories?

<?php include($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] . "../../config/company.php"); ?>

Jack Vliegendhart
Jack Vliegendhart
6,581 Points

Yeah, would like to know this as well.

Also this gets validated as correct as well:

<?php include_once('../../config/company.php'); ?>

and this doesn't work:

<?php include_once('../htdocs/config/company.php'); ?>

strange...

Rossouw Strydom
Rossouw Strydom
12,398 Points
Rossouw Strydom
Rossouw Strydom
12,398 Points

Hey can someone help me with this code challenge 3/3, I don't understand it?

Chris Lovelace
Chris Lovelace
2,289 Points

You will need to echo php code into the page.

<?php echo $owner ?>

Juliano Vargas
PLUS
Juliano Vargas
Courses Plus Student 15,575 Points
Juliano Vargas
Juliano Vargas
Courses Plus Student 15,575 Points

I don't understand that here i my code <?php include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/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>

it says that i am including the file correctly but it does not pass it asks me to try again. anyone knows why and what I could be missing?

Brian Knopke
Brian Knopke
Courses Plus Student 1,905 Points

I think it's because you need to go up two levels of directory.

../ = up one directory (added twice in correct code)

Since the file you are working on is root_directory/about/leadership/index.php

You start in the leadership directory

Up one directory takes you to /about/

Up one more directory takes you to the root directory

now that you are in the root directory you can add the file path

<?php include_once('../../config/company.php'); ?> or <?php include($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] . "../../config/company.php"); ?>

Brian Knopke
PLUS
Brian Knopke
Courses Plus Student 1,905 Points
Brian Knopke
Brian Knopke
Courses Plus Student 1,905 Points

I believe the reason you need to go back 2 directories is because they are asking for a relative server path not a root-relative server path.

I would love some feedback from the staff.

Ismail Qaznili
Ismail Qaznili
27,996 Points

True, the last segment of the question states "using a relative server path" which is " ../ ' prefix. (took me a while to noticed since I think everyone -me included - is focusing on using the best common practice "root-relative server path")