how to tell dir depth with php?

dizeyner

I'm learning php and just barely know my way around javascript. Old javascript file I used for navigation used dir depth to tell pages where the script was, and append ../ when a file calling the javascript needed to see things like images.

I have the php includes working, but, the images don't show up and I think that is because I tried to marry the old dir depth to the new php.

Please see http://www.ap.com/~katherineb/test/indexTest.html (I can see images)
and http://www.ap.com/~katherineb/test/products/indexTest.html (I can't see images)

I am stumped and don't know what to do.

br__ken

ohh ic, your including the right files , but you cant get the images. thats because you may have the right path for a certain directory.

in the include files (if they are being used across the site) put in absolute values for each image tag.

what i mean is:

'this is the include file' in dir 'www/include/'
<img src=../imgs/image1.jpg>

that would work for ever level 1 dir (or whatever) but if youre now at 'www/info/about/' the include will attach itself and then be looking for ../imgs/image1.jpg still, yet www/info/imgs/image1.jpg doesnt exist-> so they are blank

hope that makes sense. just use abs path like <img src=/imgs/image1.jpg>

edit: think of it like this -> the include file is just a shorter way to 'add' the code in the same file- so in theory, when you include a file it serves the same way it would as if you wrote the code again and again in each file

JDcrack

Take a look at the differences in what each page is printing:
Example:

~katherineb/test/indexTest.html
printed in source:
images/navTop/software_over.gif
looking for image here:
~katherineb/test/images/navTop/prod_over.gif
IMAGE LOCATED

~katherineb/test/products/indexTest.html
printed in source:
images/navTop/software_over.gif
looking for image here:
~katherineb/test/products/images/navTop/prod_over.gif
IMAGE NOT LOCATED

So unless you have another "images" dir inside your "products" dir, this won't work

For the html pages in your products dir , you should have the img src point here:
../images/navTop/software_over.gif

the ../ will point it to the previous dir.