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Ted Sumner
Courses Plus Student 17,967 PointsWhat is the answer for step 2? (If this is too short is is because there seems to be a character limit for iPads.
I cannot figure out the answer to this step of the challenge. I have tried the following both before and after the html tag:
Include ("/config/company.php"); Include ("../../config/company.php"); Include ("../config/company.php");
I have also tried without the parents and quotes in all combinations. It is supposed to be a server relative path. The error message always says that I am not including the file. All iterations were enclosed by <?php ........ ?>
My understanding is the code starting with a / should look to the top directory, then follow the path. The path starting with ../ moves up one directory for each sequence. Since we are in about/leadership, we need two to move to the proper folder. I also tried /[whatever the parent folder is]/config/company.php. I looked at the PHP documentation and it looks like the () are not required, but that didn't work.
<?php
include "../../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>
3 Answers
Codin - Codesmite
8,600 PointsI think the question is possibly bugged?
Testing it myself I managed to pass the question with:
<?php
include "./config/company.php";
?>
Which to my understanding would link to the current directory which would be: htdocs/about/leadership/config/company.php and not htdocs/config/company.php which would be accessed with ../../config/company.php as a relative path from where index.php is located.
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 PointsHi Ashley,
I think you're right that there is a problem currently with this code challenge. A few others have had the same issue.
It doesn't hurt to have it but you don't need the current directory reference.
"config/company.php" will work too.
Theodore,
The correct answer should have been what you wrote: "../../config/company.php" and your reasoning behind it is correct. Just to get past the challenge, take Ashley's advice and treat the "config" folder as being inside the "leadership" folder.
Ted Sumner
Courses Plus Student 17,967 PointsI will try your answer. I think you are right about the path of your code.
Ted Sumner
Courses Plus Student 17,967 PointsI did Ashley's answer and it was accepted. This quiz needs to be corrected.
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 PointsJason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 PointsHampton Paulk ,
Task 2 of this challenge seems to be treating the "config" folder as being inside the "leadership" folder which doesn't match up with the instructions.