RE: [PHP] site root variable (for Generic Unix and Windows)

Agreed - use absolute paths - but DONT include the protocol://server Best is: <A HREF=/admin/mypage> Not so good is: <A HREF=/admin/mypage.php> <A HREF=/admin/mypage.html> Don't do this <A HREF=http://www.mine.com/admin/mypage> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ You don't want your dev site linking to unreleased pages in production etc. I wanted relative, but after probs with web design tools, php and having loads of sites to maintain I eventually had to bite the bullet and now use absolute paths for all links. There are too many gotchas balancing a tree of relative links. Note that w3, recommend NOT include the file type in the link. Let the server choose it for you: e.g. <A HREF=/admin/mypage> is better than than <A HREF=/admin/mypage.php> <A HREF=/admin/mypage.html> etc. A nice side effect is that you can start with static holding .html pages and transparently substitute them, a page at a time to smarter .php as you get the coding done. Of course, you need a decent web server... Regards Jeff -----Original Message----- From: Matt Williams [mailto:matt@yewlands.com] Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 1:23 PM To: ben.2.edwards@bt.com; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] site root variable (for Generic Unix and Windows) you could make your links absolute ie.. /cat.html so if you're in http://green/admin/admin.html you would link to http://green/cats.html HTH M@ > I am developing a PHP site under windows which is going to be deployed > eventually on Unix (indeed when life gets less hectic will also > be developed > under Unix but that's another story). > > Anyway the header.html (included at top of every page) has links in it. > However depending where the page is which is including > header.html the links > (from a relative point of view) will be different. For example for the > index.php (which is in site root) the catalogue page is simply referred to > as cat.html but from admin.html (which is in the admin directory > under site > root) ../cat.html would be required. > > A way to get round this problem seems to be to have a variable > with the site > root in it (i.e. $siteroot = "c:/pages/") however this is causing > me a real > headache. using > > echo "<a href=\"" . $siteroot "/cat.php">Catalogue</a> > > renders href to c:/pages/cat.php but then the browser tries to > download the > page as a file. I have also tried > > $siteroot = "http://green/ > > (green being the domain) but this douse not work either. > > I would really like the solution to this to be platform independent. > > Ta in Advance, > ben > -- > ben.2.edwards@bt.com (ben@work until end March) > ben@videonetwork.org (ben@home) > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net