[Q] obtaining relative paths within a html page?

Sir Loin of Beef

I have a root directory with 1 subdirectory(my photo), and 2 files.
Inside the myphoto subdirectory, I have 1 html page and another image.

Root dir:
<myphoto>
01.jpg
watermark.php
myphoto:
indexpage.html
01.jpg
Inside indexpage.html, I have a link like this, which calls the
watermark.php in the root directory and passes it a parameter of a
filename.

<a href="../watermark.php?s rc=01.jpg" target="">my watermarked
image</a>
However, in this case, watermark.php is passed the 01.jpg which is in
the root directory.

Instead of this, I want it to be passed the 01.jpg from the myphoto
subdirectory. I can solve the problem easily if I code in the absolute
path, but I want
to stay with relative paths, since I may change directory names quiet
often.

How can I solve this problem?

Jul 23 '05 #1

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Jan Roland Eriksson

On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 00:57:33 GMT, te**@gesg.com (Sir Loin of Beef)
wrote:

I have a root directory with 1 subdirectory(my photo), and 2 files.
Inside the myphoto subdirectory, I have 1 html page and another image.

Root dir:
<myphoto>
01.jpg...

[bla, bla bla]

And this relates to an (X)HTML problem of yours in some way?

--
Rex

Jul 23 '05 #2

Mark Parnell

Previously in comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.html, Sir Loin of Beef
<te**@gesg.co m> said:

<a href="../watermark.php?s rc=01.jpg" target="">my watermarked
image</a>

However, in this case, watermark.php is passed the 01.jpg which is in
the root directory.

Instead of this, I want it to be passed the 01.jpg from the myphoto
subdirectory. How can I solve this problem?

Change your php code to look in the myphoto directory for the filename
you pass it. Then if you ever change the directory, you only have to
change it in the php, rather than on every link.

--
Mark Parnell
http://www.clarkecomputers.com.au

Jul 23 '05 #3

Lachlan Hunt

Sir Loin of Beef wrote:

to stay with relative paths, since I may change directory names quiet
often.

Why would you ever want to change your directory paths so often? Doing
so is very likely to also change the URI, which is very bad practice.
Have you not heard that Cool URIs Don't Change? Think before you
publish and directories won't need to change.

http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/uri-choose
http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/uri-manage
http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI

--
Lachlan Hunt
http://lachy.id.au/
http://GetFirefox.com/ Rediscover the Web
http://SpreadFirefox.com/ Igniting the Web

Jul 23 '05 #4

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