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

li guopeng
li guopeng
8,873 Points
Posted by li guopeng
li guopeng
8,873 Points

Challenge Task

Challenge Task 1 of 3

The PHP file below contains code for the page on a website. It is named index.php, and it is located in the htdocs/about/leadership subfolder. The web address for this web page is http://localhost/about/leadership/. The HTML for the page has an anchor tag that is supposed to link to http://localhost/contact/, but it’s broken. Fix that link, using a root-relative web address.

about/leadership/index.php 
<html>
<head>
     <title>Leadership | Shirts 4 Mike</title>
</head>
<body>

    <h1>Leadership</h1>
    <p><strong>Owner:</strong> ????</p>
    <p><a href=<?php $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] ?> "/contact/">Contact</a></p>

</body>
</html>

1 Answer

Jose Soto
Jose Soto
23,407 Points
Jose Soto
Jose Soto
23,407 Points

The challenge does not ask for a 'root-relative' path, only a relative server path. Get rid of the 

<?php $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] ?>

command and leave the leading '/' in front of 'contact'.