Directory tree: ./../folder or ../folder?

Volitics

There is a question that I have regarding links to other pages on my web site.

// At the present time my web site is set up like so:

root or top folder:
[FONT=arial]index.php
/users
/obits
/images
/phpadmin
/etc.
/etc.[/FONT]

What's the best way to structure a link from a page in, for example, the obits folder to a page in the users folder?

For example a page in this directory:
[FONT=arial]http://www.mydomain.com/obits/LinkPage.php[/FONT]

Might have links to this page in this directory:
[FONT=arial]http://www.mydomain.com/users/UserPage.php[/FONT]

// this one will work:
<a href="./../users/UserPage.php">Link</a>

//this one also works:
<a href="../users/UserPage.php">Link</a>

The reason I ask is that currently I have all the links set up using the ../users format. Also, I have numerous includes files that use the exact same format.

I know that different versions of the Windows OS handle images differently. I'm just wondering if different OS's handle directory tree structures differently?

I'm about ready to launch my web site and I don't want it to crash on some users - so I need to make sure that the directory tree structure is proper.

If I need to change them it's going to take two or three days to make all the changes so I don't want to change them unless I have to.

Thanks.

mtimdog

to my understanding, they should both work.

If you have to change them, I'd suggest using dreamweaver so you can search for "../ in the site and replace with "./../ or vice versa quickly.

Volitics

mtimdog;

Thanks for responding to my problem.

By chance I do have an older version of dreamweaver (ver. 3 1997-1999).

It does have a find and replace function - so it should work fine.

This particular version of dreamweaver, it's old but as I recall it will search through the whole web site and replace all instances of a string.

Since I started learning PHP about a year ago I've not used the dreamweaver much so I've forgotten much of the functionality.

Thanks again.