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**Rajaie** · 05:56 AM

Hey guys,

I'd really appreciate it if someone could tell me how to have links work correctly when using includes.
but without using the http://localhost/link/subdir.

Here are the files:
http://rajaie.alkorani.googlepages.com/MySite.rar

**mtishetsky** · 02-05-2008, 06:00 AM

What is the problem exactly?

Including files has nothing to do with links representation. If you want to avoid problems use URLs relative to site root: /path/to/link instead of links relative to current folder: path/to/link.

**Rajaie** · 02-05-2008, 06:28 AM

mmm... ****, this is hard to explain. anyways ill try my best.

when i include the navmenu on the index page, the links work as their supposed to.
but then when i include the navmenu from a subdir, the links dont work anymore,
so what im saying is: how do i get the links to work wherever they are on my site?

**tripy** · 02-05-2008, 06:30 AM

Mtishetsky just answered that:

Quote:

If you want to avoid problems use URLs relative to site root: /path/to/link instead of links relative to current folder: path/to/link.

**Rajaie** · 07:18 AM

I have no idea how to explain it
see for yourslef

Site index code:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>The Wireless Shack</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<!--[if IE]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="includes/iestylesheet.php">
<![endif]-->
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="includes/stylesheet.php">
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="images/favicon.ico" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<a href=#><div id="header"></div></a>
<?PHP include('includes/navmenu.php'); ?>
<div id="main">
<div id="article"> 
<div id="articledetails">Article Details Go Here</div>
<div id="articlecontent">Article Goes Here</div>
<div id="articleimages">Article Images Go Here</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="footer">
&copy; 2008-2009 The Wireless Shack 
&nbsp;
<a href="aboutus">About Us</a> |
<a href="contactus">Contact Us</a> |
<a href="login">Login</a> 
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

/downloads index.php code

Code:

<?PHP include('../includes/navmenu.php'); ?>

navmenu.php code

Code:

<div id="navmenu">
<form>
<input type="text" size="20"> 
<input type="submit" value="Search"> 
</form>
<a href="#" class="button">HomePage</a> |
<a href="../downloads" class="button">Downloads</a> |
<a href="../archives" class="button">Archives</a> |
<a href="../tags" class="button">Tags</a> 
</div>

When you access the menu from the /downloads index.php page, they work fine,
but when you access them from the sites main page, they dont work as supposed to

i've been trying to figure out a solution for hours, please help !

**tripy** · 02-05-2008, 07:40 AM

It's exactly what we told you.

You are using relative path, and you need to use absolute path.

Change

Code:

../downloads

tho the absolute path from your web site root.
Probably

Code:

/downloads

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...=Google+Search
http://support.internetconnection.ne...le_Paths.shtml
http://www.ibdhost.com/help/path/
http://www.webdiner.com/webadv/begin/paths.htm

**Rajaie** · 09:04 AM

when i use /downloads it takes me to localhost/downloads and not localhost/mysite/downloads

i believe that this will only work if my site is located in the localhost (www) directory?

EDIT: Nevermind, I just added /mysite/ to the link. Now it works fine.
Thank you so much!!!

Second Edit:

When I try to include a navmenu.php from the downloads/index.php page using: <?PHP include('/MySite/includes/navmenu.php'); ?>
It gives me this error:

Warning: include(/MySite/includes/navmenu.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in D:\Wamp\www\MySite\downloads\index.php on line 1

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening '/MySite/includes/navmenu.php' for inclusion (include_path='.;C:\php5\pear') in D:\Wamp\www\MySite\downloads\index.php on line 1

Is their something I don't know about PHP and paths?

**tripy** · 02-05-2008, 09:32 AM

Quote:

Is their something I don't know about PHP and paths?

Yes.
The php include() path must be relative (or absolute) related to the server file system.
The web path is different in this case.

You can rely on the $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] variable to determine where the web site root folder is located.

So, use something like

PHP Code:


			
include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/include/navmennu.php");

to always include the good file, no matter where you are in your site tree.

**Rajaie** · 02-05-2008, 09:51 AM

It Worked! Thanks a lot!

Added to your talkupation!