includes across folders

cschotch

ok...heres a question I might get told to RTM on but I'm not getting it or something. Since I started doing this webstuff I have pretty much been putting all the files I have in 1 directory....yeap thats right 1 directory....(you may all shoot me now) luckily for me thats only 10 files so far. Now I'm looking into doing alot more as I learn more. But, when I start having a directory and try refering back to another It doesnt show up...(ie the includes arent there) someone said to use a $document root...how and where...

<?php include("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/headhtml.php");
?>

I did that but it gives me a error....do I need to check something out or am i doing it wrong....

tijger

hi cschotch,

what do you think off giving $DOCUMENT_ROOT a value, a path value?
for instance:

$DOCUMENT_ROOT = "../my/path/to/head";

good luck.
greetings, tijger

cschotch

I thought that because $document_root was in the php.ini it would come up as a global variable??......so do I have to declare it as a constant ...

cschotch

Ok I get what I was doing wrong...but how do you link a CSS style sheet....

adrian_quah

I use:

in the file that's included in every page..In my case, this line is placed in the included file header.

I only need to write it once, but must include the Header file in every page of my site..Once my CSS file changes, the change is reflected throughout the site..

Hope it helps,

Adrian