Site Links from my Include

[lorikeet]

Hello,
I have a website with multiple levels and have attempted to use server side includes for the navigation. Each webpage has the <?php include 'menu.php'?> code in it which gets to the file with links for the site's pages.

* "webpage.php" uses a relative link to call "menu.php" (no biggie)
* "menu.php" has relative links to all pages (problematic)

When the webpage is rendered in the browser, code from the "menu.php" include file is simply inserted into the "webpage.php". The relative links in "menu.php" work great for webpages on the same level, BUT it doesn't work for pages on other levels. Am I stuck with having to use 4 separate 'menu.php' include files for the 4 different levels of the website? All I want to do is use a single "menu.php" include file and have it utilized by all pages in all levels. Possible?

[madwormer2]

Just use a base path variable, then you can change one line to change the directory of the links.

<?php
$base_path = '../';
include('menu.php');
?>

And in menu.php, before all the links, use the $base_path variable, so it'll link to the right place.

<?php
echo '<a href="'. $base_path . 'relative.link">Link!</a>';
?>

[MarkR]

Alternatively, use root-relative paths for resources referred to in menu.php

i.e. /images/something.gif instead of images/something.gif

Mark