Absolute or relative paths

[michelle]

Hi all,

I am having trouble using with using paths on my website. Is there a
way to use an absolute path that always refers to the website's root
directory...or do I need to use a relative path?

The problem I am having is how to refer to my "/images" directory no
matter where it is referenced in the website's directory structure.

I have used the URI (http://www.mysite.com/images), but that seems too
complex, especially if I needed to reference other directories. I know
that PHP must have a simpler solution.
Thank you in advance,

Miki

[Jerry Stuckle]

michelle wrote:

Hi all,

I am having trouble using with using paths on my website. Is there a
way to use an absolute path that always refers to the website's root
directory...or do I need to use a relative path?

The problem I am having is how to refer to my "/images" directory no
matter where it is referenced in the website's directory structure.

I have used the URI (http://www.mysite.com/images), but that seems too
complex, especially if I needed to reference other directories. I know
that PHP must have a simpler solution.
Thank you in advance,

Miki

Check out $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']
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[John Dunlop]

michelle wrote:

Is there a way to use an absolute path that always refers to the
website's root directory...or do I need to use a relative path?
Aye.
The problem I am having is how to refer to my "/images" directory no
matter where it is referenced in the website's directory structure.
Probably /images/ (note the trailing slash).
I have used the URI (http://www.mysite.com/images), but that seems too
complex,
I'd imagine it has other side effects too.
I know that PHP must have a simpler solution.

To refer to the URI

http://domain.invalid/images/

with a base URI of

http://domain.invalid/foo/

either <../images/> or </images/>; the latter works regardless
of base URI.

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Jock

[elektrophyte]

Within plain HTML if you start a URL with "/" that refers to the root
level of the domain and your absolute URL will be good. For example,

<img src="/images/myFile.gif" />

should work no matter where it's used.

However everything's different within PHP code. If want to refer to an
absolute path inside of <? and ?> then you need to use a different
strategy. One thing that works is to precede your absolute path with
"$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] like this:

<? include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/include/navbar.inc'); ?>