I'm converting my site to PHP in order to include one header file in every file. However, my site is organized such that I have a "videos" directory which contains many more pages, and I want to include the same header file on these pages. For some reason, the statement

<?php include("/header.php");?>

does not look for the file in the root directory, unlike the statement

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

I'm new to PHP; is the syntax of that invalid? I do realize that I can include("../header.php"), but I like referring to things absolutely in case I move files around. And no, I don't want to include it as an absolute URL, because I need to develop things offline. Is there any way to do this in PHP?

Thanks,
-Duff

Well, I found the problem... It's that the absolute URL of my header.php file on my home machine apache install is

W:\www\header.php

However, on my webhost, it's

/homepages/31/d88275995/htdocs/header.php

Hmmm... Any recommendations, or is ../header.php my best bet?

You can use either a relative path (../header.php) or an absolute path (/homepages/31/d88275995/htdocs/header.php), as far as PHP is concerned, they are the same.

The relative path just might make it easier going from host to host, or from your computer to your server etc.