include() and relative URLs

[Anon]

I am looking for a solution to what i'd imagine to be a common situation, but for which i am drawing a blank:

Suppose /dir/index.phtml does an
include("sub/body.html") and sub/body.html has the tag <IMG SRC="pic.jpg"> and the file pic.jpg is located in /dir/sub along with body.html .

The problem is that the relative URL in the IMG tag prevents loading the image from the included file; the browser sees its URL as "/dir/pic.jpg" which is not a working link.

My goal is to have a bunch of various article bodies (with accompanying pictures), each located in its own subdirectory under a main directory where the index.phtml can include any one of them. If possible, i would like each article to be "self-contained" within its own subdirectory, i.e. avoid requiring them to be aware of their absolute locations. So i'm looking for the simplest way to implement this.... include() seems not to be the answer since relative URLs get broken. Is there another PHP feature or trick to accomplish what i'm looking for? Thanks...

[Anon]

How about if you make the image src
$sub_dir/pic.jpg (where $sub_dir) is the name of the new dir that has been made just for that article)in the include file so that if viewed as the include file only.....it shows no image, but when viewed in the index.phtml it should find the image as long as you provide the $sub_dir with the url or something like;

<A href='PHP_SELF?$sub_dir=article1'></A>

Hope this helps,
scott d~

[Anon]

I ran into the same problem. I need to convert the relative links of a page to absolute links on the fly. I'm trying to write a function that searches a string for 'href="' and checks to see if there is a colon before the next quote and decides whether to convert it or not based on that test. I have no idea how to write it but I REALLY need too. I have been pooring over the online manuals trying to find anything that would help.