help with sharing a header and footer accross different folders

[misheck]

I am working on my first CMS and I have designed a header and footer that I wish to share accross my website folder. I have created a main folder with this kind of set up

Project1 -> (Folders) images,includes,javascripts,styles,functions, admin (files) index.php, content.php

files in admin index.php, edit.php, delete.php, etc.

My problem is for the header to display its images and scripts I need to copy the images and scripts folder into the same folder as the header. Is there anything I can do either to the header so that where ever I paste

<?php include('../includes/header.php');?>

It will use one global stylesheet and images folder?

[Bjom]

you can change your include path so that it points to a specific folder (make sure to add this folder to the path and do not replace the path with the new one)

[misheck]

So do you mean I should have include("/path/to/myfolder/"), So this will include the whole folder. Will this not slow down the loading of the pages using that header and footer because it needs to load everything?

[TwistedLogix]

just put the file you want to inlcude in the same directory then use

<?php include('file.php');?>