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PHP

Posted by varis darasirikul
varis darasirikul
10,832 Points

Troubles with Enhancing a Simple PHP Application Challenge task 3 about relative server path.

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.

and I wrote this but it doesn't work and i dont know why.

<?php
include('$_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]'.'/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>

this is link to a Challenge task (task 2)

http://teamtreehouse.com/library/enhancing-a-simple-php-application-2/cleaning-urls-with-subfolders/server-paths-and-constants

10 Answers

andi mitre
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andi mitre
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andi mitre
andi mitre
Treehouse Guest Teacher

<?php include ($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] . "../../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>

andi mitre
STAFF
andi mitre
Treehouse Guest Teacher
andi mitre
andi mitre
Treehouse Guest Teacher

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

Ryan Tseng
Ryan Tseng
7,325 Points
Ryan Tseng
Ryan Tseng
7,325 Points

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

Gerasimos Kourtidis
Gerasimos Kourtidis
5,162 Points
Gerasimos Kourtidis
Gerasimos Kourtidis
5,162 Points

try removing the single quotes around $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]

varis darasirikul
varis darasirikul
10,832 Points
varis darasirikul
varis darasirikul
10,832 Points

I have tried but it doesn't work .

varis darasirikul
varis darasirikul
10,832 Points
varis darasirikul
varis darasirikul
10,832 Points

I already pass it thank you

Ryan Tseng
Ryan Tseng
7,325 Points
Ryan Tseng
Ryan Tseng
7,325 Points

what was the solution?

andreih
andreih
6,108 Points
andreih
andreih
6,108 Points

I'm not sure that's correct. $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] will give you document root, which is /htdocs/ after that you need to go into /config folder and that is done by . 'config/company.php');

Jimmy Maurice
Jimmy Maurice
9,379 Points
Jimmy Maurice
Jimmy Maurice
9,379 Points

The solution is :

            <?php require_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . 'config/company.php'); ?>
Ryan Tseng
Ryan Tseng
7,325 Points
Ryan Tseng
Ryan Tseng
7,325 Points

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