including images question - help!

Anon

hi, sorry I'm a newbie, but I got great help the last time from phpbuilder!

I have manage to intrgrate PHP onto a single directory or folder, but when use PHP from another folder (eg. "things") I have problems when I try to include HTML files from the previous folder (eg. "root")

this is the code I use in a php3 file that resides in "things" but when I try to call up a "..\navigation.html" file that resides in "root" - it works but the images that the nav.html refers to don't turn up. How can I get the php3 residing in things to recognise the images that "..\navigation.html" refers to?

######things/things.php3

Anon

Hi, I found this among the forums from Chris, but I need the flexibility of not having to retype a whole html or php file just to reference pictures. Is there a way to look for pictures in a different directory from where the file was called up from? thanks!

navigation.html should reference the picture as an absolute path (/content/image.jpg) because anything that is not absolutely referenced will be referenced accoring to the script it was called from, in this example its template.php3. If navigation.html just has <IMG SRC="image.jpg"> then it will look for the image.jpg in the same directory as where the script it was called from resides.

brandonschnell

use absolute URLs and file paths in any include file.

i do something like this:

/ (index.php and thats about it)
/globals/ (include files)
/globals/header.php (every to the <BODY> tag)
/globals/footer.php
/graphics/

i include header.php at the top of the page. any references to graphics from any page would be something like "/graphics/folder/image.gif". keeping the graphics and html seperate makes the entire thing grep friendly.