Hello, another newbie with a question...

hipo

Hi everyone. I've been using PHP, and I'm still learning as I go.

I am having problems with paths (especially with image files) in the includes I create. I'm not even sure if I can write links to images in a separate folder in an include file that resides in a separate folder. If I'm not trying to do something I'm not supposed to, how do I make the image display in my final page.

In my base page I have this:

and in the navigationbar.inc.php file, I have specified an image file lilke this:

Everything shows in the page except for the image. Any ideas?:queasy:

dagon

try the absolute path from the server root for the image, that should always work

hipo

Thanks. I actually tried that and worked, but wasn't sure if that's the right way of referencing images from an include.

dagon

If its a script to be distributed then perhaps not the best way, but if its just for your site then its fine.

hipo

Well, it's for a site I'm designing but I wonder what should I do if I want to distribute the script. I know that will happen in the future. Any suggestions?

Joseph07

You can have a configuration page where you properly defined all your variables in there. For example,

$rootfolder = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
$imagefolder = $rootfolder."/image/";

etc. or you could use DEFINE

DEFINE("ROOT", $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];

Many ways you can do it, depends on how you want it to be.