On Apr 3, 2006, at 10:54 AM, Mace Eliason wrote:
Hi,
This is come thing that I have struggled with now and again. I
usaually us php code to make it work, but was wondering how others
deal with this
I use includes in most of the web applications that I work on to
include the header, footer, menu etc.
The problem that I always run into as a project gets bigger is my
links to pages. If all the files are in the root directory theres
no problem.
If I have some files in a folder and call my menu for example <?
include("../menu.php"); ?> I have to call if from the parent
directory. But then of course
all the links are wrong. Root becomes the calling directory.
I usually use a php variable to place the ../ if its needed.
How does everyone else deal with this type of problem. I have a
times places an extra copy of the footer, menu, header etc in each
directory but it is a pain to change links
when you have multiple locations to do it in.
Thanks for any suggestions.
I would be nice to have a simple way to have my include files in a
common place that works and keeps the links right.
Scandog
Ok, I this may only help part of your problem. Within your "menu.php"
file, you could make all the links absolute:
<a href="/root/to/a/location.php">Place A</a>
<a href="/root/to/somewhere.php">Place B</a>
instead of relative:
<a href="location.php">Place A</a>
<a href="somewhere.php">Place B</a>
That means you can use only 1 menu.php file and all the links will
work from wherever. Of course, this does not fix this issue:
<? include ("../../menu.php"); ?> or
<? include ("menu.php"); ?> or
<? include ("../somewhere/menu.php"); ?>
for each of your files that includes the menu. Maybe another clever
person has an idea.
~Philip
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