Best way to deal with a site with files in different folders

endeavour

Okay, lets say I have the following folders

~/public_html/ - root www folder
~/public_html/inc - php includes
~/public_html/images - images

~/public_html/products - products etc
~/public_html/support - support etc
~/public_html/support/product1 - support for product 1

My question is, whats the best way to deal with include() and img src=""

For example. Lets assume I have an image called logo.jpg im the images folder.

In my php file, I do:

<img src="images/logo.jpg">
This will work, but if I need to move the file into a sub-folder I'll have to add a ../ in front of images to get it working again

<img src="/images/logo.jpg">
This will work, but only assuming my site is on a domain. For example
http://www.mydomain.com/index.php (it will then be able to find the image)

but, testing locally for example
http://localhost/~mysite/index.php

it won't be able to find the image, because it will be looking for it at http://localhost/images/logo.jpg

Whats the best way to deal with this so I can test my site locally and remotely without editing all the URLs each time. The same applies to include(), including .css style sheets, and .js files.

Cheers,
James.

paul088

<img src=/images/logo.gif> should work.

mystrymaster

simply have an include file that icludes the base of your directory and then you an simpoly change one file

$homeDir = ~/public_html/

and then your urls are

include $homeDir . "/includes/file.php";

my syntax may indeed not be right - still trying to wake up but at least the idea is conveyed and then you just change what that variable is and you are good to go

endeavour

Only trouble is then dreamweaver can't figure it out and so it ruins my WYSIWIG.

I've settle on using a / before the names and at the moment i have just stuck my site in http://localhost (root folder)

How can I add vhosts on apache in windows for testing, so I can have things like:

http://site1
http://site2

(all pointing to 127.0.0.1 but apache treating them as different domains)

If that's not possible what about different ports?

http://localhost:80
http://localhost:81

etc?