PHP Includes Advice

wackojackouk

Hi guys

I'm building a website at the moment for a friends company and as it's going to have about 25 pages I have decided to use PHP includes for the header/footer which include images/dhtml menu to save me a lot of time hard coding each page.

Normally in Dreamweaver I specify the location of images as something like images/imagename.jpg which works fine on the index.php page so I went ahead and created a menu.htm page and included it within the index.php page. Uploaded it and bingo - works fine one template page built quickly.

Anyway my next task was to set about creating an ABOUT US page so I created a new folder (called about), saved a copy of index.php as about.php, changed a bit of text, uploaded, then I noticed half the images were missing.

Am I right in thinking for php includes (eg for menu's) I would need to specify the full location of the images ie:- www.blahblah.com/images/dodgy.jpg in the MENU.HTM page?

I found a tutorial here and it didn't mention anything about that.

Hope I've explained myself clearly enough, newbie to PHP includes

WJUK

DrBenway

How about:

../images/imagename.jpg

You seem to have moved down a dir level into "about" so you need to get back up a level before going into images. Much better than creating another http request. Check relative versus absolute paths in any html tuturial.

zenmaster

If you are likely to be doing a lot of similar things in the future (or even if you are just interested) and are prepared to spend a small amount of time in learning the basics, I suggest that you look at a CMS.

There are a number of popular packages out there (Joomla springs to mind) but my personal favourite is ModX.

user1234_2

DrBenway wrote:

How about:

../images/imagename.jpg

You seem to have moved down a dir level into "about" so you need to get back up a level before going into images. Much better than creating another http request. Check relative versus absolute paths in any html tuturial.

Yup, that should do it.

wolfman

Or just use /images/...

By putting the slash at the beginning it'll reference it from the web root, no matter where you are.

In .Net you can do ~/images/... which will reference it from the current application (in case you have virtual directories). There may be something similar in PHP worth looking up.