relative vs. absolute links in php driven pages?

[Stephen Kay]

If you are dynamically loading pages, through php, from inside a folder that
have relative links to images inside the same folder, into another document
(a template) in a different folder level, the links will be broken.

Is there some magic trick to dealing with this, or is it just better to
never use relative links in a site that will be dynamically driven with php?

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Stephen Kay
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[Erwin Moller]

Stephen Kay wrote:

If you are dynamically loading pages, through php, from inside a folder
that have relative links to images inside the same folder, into another
document (a template) in a different folder level, the links will be
broken.

Is there some magic trick to dealing with this, or is it just better to
never use relative links in a site that will be dynamically driven with
php?

Hi,

Well, several opinions on this subject.
my 2 cents:

Your problem manifests in many forms, also with includes.
I made it a habbit to make a config-file for each PHP-project, and make a
simple function (or constant) in there that points to eg:
- absolute path (URI) to imagedirectory
something like:
function getRootDirImages(){
return "http://www.blabla.com/images/";
}

You can do the same for includes, but it is easier to overwrite a php.ini
setting for each script named include_path.
use ini_set() for that.

If you include both above every script, you have easy acces to all your
paths.

More solutions exists, but I like this one because it is easy and clean.

Regards,
Erwin Moller