pictures not shown on called include page

[Braimaster]

Hi2all

         I have 2 folders "Main" and "Login"...In Main Page
         i have index.php  & Top.php ,Top.php contains some 
     pictures,pictures are also in main folder. when i 
     include Top.php in Index.php..index.php shows all 
     images.........but when i call top.php in login.php
         which is reside in Login folder ...images are not shown.


  Main folder
  ----------------------------------------------
      index.php

       <?php
        include("top.php");
       ?>

   Index.php show all images which are in top.php
   ---------------------------------------------


   Login Folder
   ---------------------------------------------
     login.php

     <?php
     include("../main/top.php");
     ?>
   --------------------------------------------

[Kerry_Kobashi]

I suspect that you are running into a pathing problem because the include files are in different directories doing relative references.

The way I usually solve this is to create one global.php file with the following in it:

$hostRoot = $SERVER["HTTP_HOST"];
if ($hostRoot == "localhost")
$hostRoot = "http://localhost";
$docRoot = $SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"];
$imageRoot = $hostRoot . "/Images/";

Then I require_once the global.php in all of my files:

require_once("global.php");

Every image reference is done as so in the markup:

<img src=\"$imageRoot . "myImage.gif"\">

Hope this makes sense