Including a file - solution to this?

[tony_l]

I have a header and footer file I include throughout the entire site - they hold the "template" basically for the site.

Usually all the image tags I use have the absolute path included in both the header and footer file to avoid the problem of broken images once you get out of the top level directory and are inside a sub directory.

example - <img src = "http://www.mysite.com/images/picture.jpg">

because this would not work (results in broken image links) - <img src = "images/picture.jpg">

This is my question -

Is there a way to avoid the problems with broken images in your site that could make the site more portable while still using includes in the site?

[HalfaBee]

You don't need the full URL for the image, just put a leading /

e.g.
<img src = "/images/picture.jpg">

[jazz_snob]

The leading '/' will always make your src="images/image.jpg" be relative to the document root. I found that a little inflexible because my development environment is often a directory other than docroot on my development server. So I always write the whole path for every resource like this

<img src="<?php print BASE_PATH;?>/images/image.jpg">

and I define BASE_PATH in my configuration file. This way I can move the site to any subdirectory, edit the BASE_PATH constant and everything works.