[RESOLVED] PHP include with subfolders. Really appreciate some help.

Major_Disaster

Hey guys,

Im in the middle of making a website and trying to learn php as i go. Ill try to explain as clearly as i can, but for those who want to cut to the chase, how do i do a php include from a subfolder, calling a file from the root directory?

The long winded version: Ive got a site in the following structure:
index.php
header.php
footer.php
products/page1.php
products/page2.php
products/page3.php
style.css

My header.php includes the following:

<head>
<link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css" media="all">
<title><?php echo $title; ?></title>
<meta name="title" content="<?php echo $metatitle; ?>">
<meta name="description" content="<?php echo $description; ?>">
<meta name="keywords" content="<?php echo $keywords; ?>">
</head>

So, in my index.php i have:

<?php
	$title ="Insert title here";
	$metatitle ="Insert title here";
	$description ="Insert description here";
	$keywords ="example, key, word, here";
include ('header.php');

Thats great and works well. But when i tru to do the same from products/page1.php, i get a whole load of problems because the include is looking in the wrong place. I can kinda get it working by using include('../header.php') - but that doesnt apply my css, as that loads the header.php allright, but then just looks for the css in products/style.css! So, i kinda understand what is going on, but i dont know how to fix it.

Ive been searching loads, and ive seen something like DOCUMENT_ROOT, which i think could work, but i dont know the actual code to use it. Im thinking, something like

<head>
<link rel="icon" href="[DOCUMENT_ROOT]/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="[DOCUMENT_ROOT]/style.css" type="text/css" media="all">
<title><?php echo $title; ?></title>
<meta name="title" content="<?php echo $metatitle; ?>">
<meta name="description" content="<?php echo $description; ?>">
<meta name="keywords" content="<?php echo $keywords; ?>">
</head>

But when i tried that on my XAMPP test server, firefox read it as C:\XAMPP\style.css - and was unable to load it?!

So, what on earth can i do?

Cheers for any help. Seriously, im really getting annoyed by this and any help would be greatly appreciated.

NogDog

Within PHP code, the $SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] can be used to point to the root folder of the web site for a file system path:

include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/sub_dir_1/sub_dir_2/file.php';

But this is not what you want to use within a [X]HTML document value for a src or href attribute. For that, all you need to do is start the path with a slash to indicate it starts from the site's document root:

<a href="/sub_dir_1/sub_dir_2/file.php">
<img src="/images/image.png" alt="" /></a>

Alternatively, you can use the full URI:

<a href="http://www.example.com/sub_dir_1/sub_dir_2/file.php">
<img src="http://www.example.com/images/image.png" alt="" /></a>

Major_Disaster

Thank you so much - that solved my problem perfectly.

Thanks again.

/satisfied customer!