Navigation Code across subfolders

Sam_Butler

I have my website (http://www.the-world.tk) all in PHP now and although I'm just starting to get the hang of it, I have quite a few features. I would like to install other things, but some need to be in subfolders and my navigation bar is included as include("nav.php"); and in a subdomain, the links would obviously point to the wrong pages. Is there a way around this and does it involve $PHP_SELF???

ftrudeau

Im not sure what is the problem here, really.
Just include your file 'nav.php' like this ;

include '../nav.php';

That should do the trick.

Hope this helps

Sam_Butler

i can do that but obviously the links point to the wrong place!!!

ftrudeau

Sorry, I just do not understand your point. Perhaps if you give me an exemple of your nav.php, I could undersand better 🙂

Sam_Butler

say i hav a link to the home page "index.php" in my nav.php which is included in all files

if the file was "images/gallery.php" or sumthin, the home link would point to "images/index.php" and the idea of includin it was to avoid the need to change each page or folder...

ftrudeau

Yes, I see your point.

Avoid this by using full URL instead of just relative URL/file names.

Example, in your nav.php file

<?
define('BASE_URL', 'http://www.the-world.tk/');
?>
<A HREF="<?= BASE_URL . 'index.php';?>">Home page</A><BR>
<A HREF="<?= BASE_URL . 'section1/index.php';?>">Section 1</A><BR>
<A HREF="<?= BASE_URL . 'section2/index.php';?>">Section 2</A><BR>

Hope this helps.