Images not displaying when using $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']

jetskirich

Hi,

I'm trying to display images using the file name appended to the document root using $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'], so that i can call an image from any folder throughout the site, without having to worry which folder the page is in (eg if the image is in the folder www/uploads and the script is in the folder www/admin).

The problem i have is that the images are not displaying, although the alt text displays, and right clicking on the image gives the correct filename and path. It doesn't not seem to matter whether i'm using my locally hosted files (for testing) or files on my website.

Here's my code to display an image.

$root = ($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']); 

<img src="<?php echo $root . $oldname; ?>" alt="<?php echo $alttext; ?>" />

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks

Richard.

Rodney_H_

have you printed out the value of root during testing to make sure the value is what you need?

For example: print($root);

I do something similar to this on a site I am working on, using a CONSTANT for doc-root, and had to make some modifications for the machine I TEST on versus the actual production server due to the directory structure and where my files were located for testing.

jetskirich

Yes i've made sure all the paths are correct:

$root when using my local pc apache server
C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/htdocs/jono

or when on my site
/home/sandlesracuk/public_html/je

and $oldname is
/uploads/blog/image1150707977.jpg

After the doc root, the folder structure is the same on both servers.

Rodney_H_

OK. Have you printed out the image file name outside of the image tags to see how THAT looks?

echo $root . $oldname;

jetskirich

yes, it looks like this

C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/htdocs/jono/uploads/blog/image1150707977.jpg

Houdini

That is the path to the file from your C drive not from the document root which is htdocs.
So your path should be jono/uploads/blog/image1150707977.jpg not C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/htdocs/jono/uploads/blog/image1150707977.jpg