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**pm_philip** · 07:17 PM

The code for my products page works but the layout is not working on the page when load.

the page can be viewed at:
http://www.positivelymade.com/pmade-...ly-t-shirt-p1/

if you go to the following link you can see what the layout should look like at:
http://www.positivelymade.com/pmade-products

The code that is giving the problem is below:

PHP Code:


			
<?php
   include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/pm/layout.php';
   // load the URL factory library
   require 'includes/url_factory.inc.php';
       
   switch($_REQUEST['req'])  {
      case "view":
         $link = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM shopping_products WHERE product_id='{$_REQUEST['product_id']}' ");
         $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($link);
         stripslashes(extract($row));
         $page_title = "Our Products: ".stripslashes($row[product_title]);
         $long_description = nl2br($long_description);    
         pmheader($page_title);
         include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/pm/html/product_large.html';
         pmfooter();
      break;

      default:       
         pmheader("Our Products");
         $link = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM shopping_products  WHERE (product_qty > 0)  ORDER BY product_title ");
         
         while($row = mysql_fetch_array($link))
         {
            stripslashes(extract($row));
            $caption = nl2br($caption);
            include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/pm/html/product_small.html';
         }
         pmfooter();
      break;
   }
?>

...All I want is for the layout of the page to WORK when I select a large product.

**danielsolution** · 07-30-2009, 03:52 PM

Why do you need the $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] --?

Can the include not be called without it?

**NullPointer** · 07-30-2009, 06:59 PM

Are you getting an error message? Is the path to the layout.php file correct?

Also in my sig you'll find a link to a post about posting code on the forum. Untabbed, unhighlighted code difficult to read.

**wayfarer07** · 07-30-2009, 07:24 PM

There's nothing wrong with using the DOCUMENT_ROOT as long as the paths are correct. This is something I do frequently in a similar fashion.

It looks like what is happening is that your styles are not linked to correctly. Instead of this:

HTML Code:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../styles/index.css" />

Link absolutely from the base like this:

HTML Code:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/styles/index.css" />

Notice all I did was remove the two dots .. Same goes for your shortcut icon.

**KellyAX** · 06:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wayfarer07

There's nothing wrong with using the DOCUMENT_ROOT as long as the paths are correct. This is something I do frequently in a similar fashion.

It looks like what is happening is that your styles are not linked to correctly. Instead of this:

HTML Code:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../styles/index.css" />

Link absolutely from the base like this:

HTML Code:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/styles/index.css" />

Notice all I did was remove the two dots .. Same goes for your shortcut icon.

He has that there because the styles folder is in the parent directory.

HTML Code:

(dot) = Current Directory
(dot)(dot) = Parent Directory

./style.css (Current Dir)
../style.css (Parent Dir)
../../style.css (ParentParent Dir)

Say I have a file structure similar to /root/1/2/3/4/5 with my image in /3/ but my index file in /5/

I would need to call parent directories.

HTML Code:

<img src="../../image.jpg">

(Which calls for)

<img src="/4/ .. /3/ .. image.jpg">

**pm_philip** · 07-31-2009, 07:17 AM

NullPoint- I am receiving no error messages.

wayfarer07- Removed the 2 dots from index.css and shortcut icon and it did nothing.

KellyAX- I changes my layout.php file to

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="../../images/pmade.ico">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../styles/index.css" />

Nothing happened

My layout.php is in the root directory & and my index.css and icon are in 2 separate folders as shown above.

Still Nothing

**pm_philip** · 07-31-2009, 08:31 AM

It is working now, Thanks guys.. real big help

**wayfarer07** · 07-31-2009, 12:17 PM

I see in your code all you did was remove the two dots as I suggested, but you said earlier that it didn't work. What was the issue?

Any path starting with "/" works its way from the root. href="/" references the homepage.

**Hallbjörn Ólaf** · 08-06-2009, 07:00 AM

Hello,
I have a jsp(lets call it A.jsp) that has a second jsp(lets call it as B.jsp) included using the include directive. I have declared a variable testStr with some default value in it. But when I try to use it in B.jsp, I get the error msg that says, testStr not resolved. I'm using RSA 7.0.0.5. I've included the corresponding jsps' code below.
When I use the same jsp in any other IDE, it works without any problem. Any help is highly appreciated.