[Resolved] Referencing root directories

AshleyQuick

I've moved some php files to various sub-directories and now the includes aren't displaying. (ie. I've moved http://xyz.net/company.php to http://xyz.net/company/index.php)

Using "/" allows images, js files, etc to show, but php includes will not. I'm sure there is an easy fix and I think I may have seen it before, but I've reached an impasse.

This doesn't work:

<?php include("/includes/inc.nav.php"); ?>

This does

Ashley

laserlight

PHP tries to find in:
DOMAIN/company/includes/inc.nav.php
rather than
DOMAIN/includes/inc.nav.php

You'll have to play with .., e.g.
include '../includes/inc.nav.php';

I personally tend to use something like:

include $base_path . 'includes/inc.nav.php';

then at the top set
$base_path = '../';

or if we go further down directory levels,
$base_path = '../../';
etc

Weedpacket

<img> src= attributes take URLs. include() takes a filename (unless you put "http://" and you don't want to do that here). URLs are not filenames.

AshleyQuick

Cool, thanks. Laserlight's solution is ideal!

Thanks again!

Ashley