I need some help resolving directories

valeryan

Hey guys and gals, I am working on a project and I wish to organize some pages into sub-directories. I have includes for things like my header and footer and sidebar. and I would like to be able to include these files in files in my sub-directories.

So Say I had a structure like this:

index.php
config.php
style.css

/classes/

/images/

/includes/
|header.php
|footer.php

/forms/
|request.php
|subscribe.php

Is There a way to make the pages in sub-directories load the content in parent directories and have those pages aware that they are loaded in sub-directories and automatically adjust the relative links to images and pages?
I know that I could just make every thing use absolute links but I just think it would work better if my scripts are aware of the relation to the root of the site and fix themselves. I am not really sure how to pose this question to Google so if you can help me out it would much appreciated.

Vale

bradgrafelman

I can think of two ways to go about doing this:

Have a generic "page.php" script in the root of the site that accepts parameters (e.g. via the query string in the URL) to know which page was requested (e.g. the "request" form). This script would then include the necessary pieces to display the desired page (e.g. include the header, include the "forms/request.php" file, then include the footer). Thus the user (and their browser) only ever sees "page.php" in the root of your site when in reality they're getting content from files located in different subfolders.
If you're linking directly to the files in the subfolders, use $SERVER["REQUEST_URI"] or $SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"] (or $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]) to determine the path to the script being accessed.

You can use something like [man]dirname/man, for example, to get the path to the directory of the current script and prepend that path to any that you output in the HTML on that page.