Re: Current URL

On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 23:15, Stephen Craton wrote: > I've wondered for quite some time, and search just as long it seems like, > for a way to get the current URL directory. For example, let's say you were > at www.example.com/files. The script is executing in this directory, and > it's calling an include script from the base (www.example.com or maybe even > www.example.com/includes). In this included file are some links and maybe > some images. These images and links are set up to be called from the base > directory, so basically all the links inside the file say something like > "images/bob.gif" or something of that nature. > > How could you dynamicaly change this in relation to where the included > script is? If I were to include it in that files in /files, it would look > for the images in /files/images/bob.gif which would not be there. One > solution I have thought of is just putting the / at the beginning (/images/) > but that wouldn't be the safest solution if the script were running in a > subfolder to begind with (like the entire site is in www.example.com/site1). > > I hope you understand what I'm trying to say. Any ideas? In a configuration file shared by the project's scripts have a constant or global variable like follows: $GLOBALS['imageBase'] = '/site1/'; Now wherever in your site you use an image you can use this value to prepend the image path. Cheers, Blobbie. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------'