Re: Here is a silly question

I'm not exactly sure... but I think that include() may not work this way: <? include ("/menu.php"); ?> I don't think it knows to go to the root and then look for menu.php. That's why you have to tell it exactly where the menu.php is found - 1 level back: <? include ("../menu.php"); ?> Maybe it should be labeled as a bug? Hehehe! ;) ~Philip On Apr 3, 2006, at 11:18 AM, Mace Eliason wrote:

Okay I gave it a try and this is one thing I ran into. in my menu file I changed all the links to <a href="/index.php">Home</a> then in a file in another directory I added this <? include("/menu.php"); ?> This didn't work if I changed it to <? include("../menu.php"); ?> This worked and the links work fine. Seems strange the first include didn't work. Shouldn't it goto the root of the website and look from there? Philip Thompson wrote:

On Apr 3, 2006, at 10:54 AM, Mace Eliason wrote:

Hi, This is come thing that I have struggled with now and again. I usaually us php code to make it work, but was wondering how others deal with this I use includes in most of the web applications that I work on to include the header, footer, menu etc. The problem that I always run into as a project gets bigger is my links to pages. If all the files are in the root directory theres no problem. If I have some files in a folder and call my menu for example <? include("../menu.php"); ?> I have to call if from the parent directory. But then of course all the links are wrong. Root becomes the calling directory. I usually use a php variable to place the ../ if its needed. How does everyone else deal with this type of problem. I have a times places an extra copy of the footer, menu, header etc in each directory but it is a pain to change links when you have multiple locations to do it in. Thanks for any suggestions. I would be nice to have a simple way to have my include files in a common place that works and keeps the links right. Scandog

Ok, I this may only help part of your problem. Within your "menu.php" file, you could make all the links absolute: <a href="/root/to/a/location.php">Place A</a> <a href="/root/to/somewhere.php">Place B</a> instead of relative: <a href="location.php">Place A</a> <a href="somewhere.php">Place B</a> That means you can use only 1 menu.php file and all the links will work from wherever. Of course, this does not fix this issue: <? include ("../../menu.php"); ?> or <? include ("menu.php"); ?> or <? include ("../somewhere/menu.php"); ?> for each of your files that includes the menu. Maybe another clever person has an idea. ~Philip