Re: Printing a root link into HTML
| From: | Chris Anderson | Date: | Sat, 07 Jul 2001 05:14:19 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Printing a root link into HTML | ||
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I always use root realative links. I just don't know how to html link to a
parent directory
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To: "Chris Anderson" <chrisderson@ameritech.net>; "Gyozo Papp"
<pgerzson@freestart.hu>; <php-general@lists.php.net>
Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 1:04 AM
Subject: RE: [PHP] Printing a root link into HTML
> if you are talking about HTML then ALWAYS USE ROOT-RELATIVE PATHS.
>
> so, if you put a simple html link to '../file.html' you should ideally
have
> it as '/whatever/dir/it/is/file.html'.
>
> This style should always be used, especially when developing a dynamic
site
> which is what all of us do in here.
>
> If you don't follow this advice I will start calling you "DreamVeawer" :-)
>
> -maxim maletsky
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Anderson [mailto:chrisderson@ameritech.net]
> Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 9:28 AM
> To: Gyozo Papp; php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: Re: [PHP] Printing a root link into HTML
>
>
> To specify, I want to link to a file in a previous directory, none of
those
> methods seem to work for that.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gyozo Papp" <pgerzson@freestart.hu>
> To: "Chris Anderson" <chrisderson@ameritech.net>;
> <php-general@lists.php.net>
> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 8:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [PHP] Printing a root link into HTML
>
>
> Hello,
>
> you should use full-path instead. You can easily find out what the name of
> the upper directory has in PHP with using either
> $HTTP_SERVER_VARS['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] or dir_name(__FILE__) or
> realpath('../previous.html').
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Anderson" <chrisderson@ameritech.net>
> To: <php-general@lists.php.net>
> Sent: 2001. július 7. 01:40
> Subject: [PHP] Printing a root link into HTML
>
>
> I need to give a link to a file in a previous directory, but HTML doesn't
> understand ../ links. Any idea how I can do this?
>
>
>
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