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

Posted by MUZ140067 Precious Mutangi
MUZ140067 Precious Mutangi
13,064 Points

STAGE 2 CHALLENGE TASK 2 0F 3

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.

about/leadership/index.php 
<?php 
require_once("inc/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>

2 Answers

Devin Scheu
Devin Scheu
66,191 Points
Devin Scheu
Devin Scheu
66,191 Points

Hey your code should look something like this:

<?php include($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]."../../config/company.php"); ?>
Sean T. Unwin
Sean T. Unwin
28,690 Points
Sean T. Unwin
Sean T. Unwin
28,690 Points

The challenge is looking to use the include() method, so while require_once may be better practice, that's not what the challenge is requesting here.

Since /config/company.php is within the htdocs directory, and htdocs is the 'DOCUMENT_ROOT' path we will use that as the beginning of our URL string. Next, we concatenate the relative path to the page we want.

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