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Linking how PHP/HTML

Answer 1

+2 A:

You have at least three options:

Make all your resources URL absolute URL. For instance, change <script type="test/javascript" src="scripts/foo.js"> to <script type="text/javascript" src="/scripts/foo.js">. If you can do it, it's by far the less intrusive solution.

Set a BASEDIR constant before you include top.php and make every resource path relative to it:

// in your file that includes top.php
<?php define('BASEDIR', '..'); ?>
// in top.php
<?php if(!defined('BASEDIR')) define('BASEDIR', '.'); ?>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo BASEDIR; ?>/style.css"/>

Add a <base> HTML tag in your <head> (this one sucks, don't do it):
```
<base href="/foo"></base>

```
Its sucks because even anchors will be relative to it. So if you have a link like <a href="#foo"> on the page qaz.php, with the <base href="/bar">, the link will point to /bar#foo instead of qaz.php#foo.

zneak 2010-04-26 17:07:25

LOL. I didn't see #1 there before until after I added my answer! Very zneaky.

webbiedave 2010-04-26 17:17:36

thank you zneak!

Karem 2010-04-26 17:18:43

the BASEDIR worked well!

Karem 2010-04-26 17:20:18

@webbiedave: I promise it's only a coincidence.

zneak 2010-04-26 17:25:28

Answer 2

A:

Add a <base href="..." /> tag to top.php. The base tag defines the URI from which all relative URIs are resolved.

Details and example here: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#h-12.4

Jakob Kruse 2010-04-26 17:07:44

Answer 3

+1 A:

You didn't post your html but I'll assume that you aren't using absolute uri's. You're probably doing something like:

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

When you should be doing something like:

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

webbiedave 2010-04-26 17:08:18

Answer 4

A:

The answer is easy:

In top.php i guess you have something like this:

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

Just change it to be an absolute URL by adding a slash to the beginning, like this:

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

Now the browser will look for your stylesheet from the document root directory in an absolute path.

BTW, people reading your question cannot easily grasp the situation because you seem to refer to different posts. I believe it is better to describe the whole problem in one post because i did not find your previous questions.

David 2010-04-26 17:13:40

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