Php includes with relative links?

[watley]

Our company has a website, hosted on our own server, which uses php includes for the header and navigation elements. To get the includes to work, for some reason, we have to use the root path, e.g.

("/Library/WebServer/Documents/Website/layout/header.php")

It looks as though we ought to be able to use

("../Website/layout/header.php")

instead, but it just plain won't work. The problem is, moving the site means changing the root path everywhere. A pain. Any suggestions as to why the shortcut won't work, or is there something else I ought to be trying?

[ScriptMan]

Without seeing the actual site structure in more detail let me throw out two things which you probably know already.

If the page is loaded from a directory under the main site pages you would use ../../ not the single set. If all the include files are in a directory under the main directory and all the pages are in the main directory you would not use any ../ , you would simply have include directory/filename.

There is also a trick you can use to establish relative links by using and parsing the the CWD() , the php_self and script_filname functions. There is a way to do it with each.

Did I help or confuse you? I'm willing to try again.

[watley]

Aha aha aha! The extra ../ for each directory did the trick. Many many thanks sir!

[ScriptMan]

Great.

That confused the h*** out of me for a long time before I figured it out. Glad I could help.

[watley]

It's been on the back burner for a year or so. I'm very glad it's sorted out.

[chicgeek]

*cheers*