Re: Sitewide Header & Footer Includes || Trouble with Relative Paths..........

Hey John. Do you ever sleep? You've got a zillion posts in this news group.......... To answer your question, it's not that I'm afraid of absolute paths, it's that I don't properly understand how to implement them. I understand why the path references are not working when I move beyond the root level directory, but getting the file reference to work beyond the root is the tricky part for me. For example, with $_CONF['path'] = '/home/me/www/program'; set in my global_vars.inc how will I reference my image files? As $path.image_file_name? Could you provide an image file reference code snippet? Let me know. Thanks, --Noah ----- Original Message ----- From: "John W. Holmes" <holmes072000@charter.net> To: "'CF High'" <noah@newminddesign.com>; <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 10:31 AM Subject: RE: [PHP] Sitewide Header & Footer Includes || Trouble with Relative Paths.......... > > How can I create a global header and footer include to my site pages > where > > I > > don't rely on absolute paths to include and image files? > > > > I'm having trouble including my header and footer .inc's within a > > multi-level directory structure -- the relative paths to images (and > to > > includes within includes) are not currently accessed within the > current > > directory structure. > > > > I'm assuming I'll need to prepend all image and include files with a > path > > variable that I set within each page, or something along those lines? > > When you call file.php, all includes and any nested includes are > relative to the directory that file.php is in. That means if you include > a file called subdir/file2.php and it attempts to include something, > it's going to start looking for it in the same directory as file.php. No > way around that. > > What's your fear of absolute paths? I always set two variables, the > absolute path of my files and the web address. > > $_CONF['path'] = '/home/me/www/program'; > $_CONF['html'] = > 'http://www.domain.com/program'; > > for example. Then do all of your paths based off of those. > > If you don't want to do that, then you can probably play around with > $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] and basename() and the like to do what you want. > > ---John W. Holmes... > > PHP Architect - A monthly magazine for PHP Professionals. Get your copy > today. http://www.phparch.com/ > >