Question

in a tutorial I am doing, the code below is in index.php file. Does the second “.” in the file indicate that index.php is not at the root level? what would the significance be of adding extra “.” in that position?

require_once("../includes/database.php");

Answer 1

This is a relative path to the current directory.

• “.” indicates the current directory
• “..” indicates one level up in the directory structure

So the answer is yes, that file is not in the root level.