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

Posted by Andrew Norris
Andrew Norris
4,857 Points

Help with code challenge on php applications urls with subfolders and server paths and constants

I'm stuck on the path in the link to the contact folder.

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="/../../contact/">Contact</a></p>

</body>
</html>

1 Answer

Jeff Lemay
Jeff Lemay
14,268 Points

The root of your project is localhost. To get there, you start a link with "/". To go into a folder, you just add the folder name: "/folder_name/".

What you've attempted, "/../../contact/", would go:

  • Go back to the root (localhost) "/"
  • Go back outside the root two levels "../../"
  • Go into the contact folder "contact/"
Jeff Lemay
Jeff Lemay
14,268 Points

The root on a live site would be your httpdocs folder (or public_html, or www). So if you wrap a link around your logo, you would only need an href of "/" or "/index.php" to have the logo link to your homepage (index.php).