Coding so images can be viewed no matter the directory

FULLAHiMHARD

Hi guys, im coding my script so it can work on many setups so i need to keep alot of things variable

anyways I have a function to do a header which is an image across the top of the screen

it works fine until i try to load it from the admin directory
(/phpscripts/admin/)

when i try to load it from the admin directory it thinks the image is at localhost/phpscripts/admin/images/banneredit.jpg when it should be localhost/phpscripts/images/banneredit.jpg

i tried to set a path in the config.php file but it does not work...
config.php

// location of images *Do not edit unless you cannot see images*
$path = '../phpscripts/images';

part of do_header(); function

<?php
include ('config.php');
    <img src="<?php echo $path;?>images/banneredit.jpg" alt="banner" width="100%"/></td>

I know i can just install the script in root directory and just set the path to

../images/

but im aiming to get my script to work on different setups

eg if a user wants to install my script outside of root directory.

Thanks 🙂

FULLAHiMHARD

If this is not possible

Is it posible to store images in mysql?

if so, would it be a bad idea to store a title image (70kb+) which gets viewed on every page?

Sorry im quite new to php

drew010

hey there whats up.

just make a config variable $path like the one you have but instead of using a "../" relative path, just do absolute like
$path = "/phpscripts/images/";
and force the user to set it.

that way in /phpscripts/admin/index.php you can do a
echo "<img src=\"" . $path . "logo.jpg\" border=0>";
type of call and no matter where you are it will call http://localhost/phpscripts/images/logo.jpg

that way it will work in any folder

or you can just use a path to scripts variable and always have the images in the same path. like
$pathToScripts = "/phpscripts";

and $pathToScripts . "/images" will always be your image path.

drew010

Originally posted by FULLAHiMHARD
If this is not possible

Is it posible to store images in mysql?

if so, would it be a bad idea to store a title image (70kb+) which gets viewed on every page?

btw, it is possible to store images in sql but i wouldnt recommend it if its viewed on every page beacause there will be a lot of extra overhead to pull all the data from sql at every load. and you can risk causing too many sql connections depending on how many people use the script at ocne. plus if the request times out, the image will just appear broken in the browser.

FULLAHiMHARD

hey buddy 😃! Thanks for the help, but i still cant get it working (im about to tear my hair out!!) 🙁

$path = "/phpscripts/";

<?php echo "<img src=\"" . $path . "/images/banneredit.jpg"?>

some reason it is not recognising the path 🙁

drew010

are you getting a parse error or is it just not showing the path? whats your msn again?

FULLAHiMHARD

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