I am new to PHP and just using it to make a login system for my HTML page. I was recently trying to make my HTML page into a PHP one so I threw all of the HTML into a PHP document and now everything works except for images. My CSS is connected to the page as well, but the background images do not work either, please help.
I am literally using images like this:
<img src='filepathhere'>
and for CSS and I am trying to use it like this for a background image:
body {
background-image:url('filepathhere');
}
None of the images will load. I am using file paths, which I saw may be the problem, but I don't know how to make them into URLs. Either way, I have no idea how to use PHP to display the images, and nothing I have searched for online has worked so far.
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<img src="C:\thinkfastrap\..."> will not work when you are serving the page via a web server since C:\thinkfastrap\... is not in the web root so the server cannot access C:\.... You will need to change your image URLs to something like /login/images/ThinkFastRapIcon.png.
For your CSS file, URLs must be relative to the folder where the CSS file resides. So this:
background-image:url('foo.jpg');
assumes foo.jpg is in the same folder as the CSS file. Based on the directory structure you posted, you probably want:
background-image:url('/login/images/BackgroundIMG.jpg'); /* Start from docroot */
or:
background-image:url('images/BackgroundIMG.jpg'); /* Go down 1 folder to images/... */
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I have made my first website and I have a simple contact form that runs a php scripts to send the details inputted in the form to my email. I initially had all the files in the root directory but I am trying to tidy it up so I now have,
all html files in the root directory, I then have folders for php, css, assets, js.
I know that to link to these I need to just do something like,
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/contactus.css"/>
I believe this tells the html to look in the root directory, then in css folder and for the file contactus.css.
This seems to work for all the css files but not for the php file ( I get a 404 error). I know this file is correct as when all the files where in the root folder it worked fine.
I currently have,
<form action="php/contactform.php" method="post">
I believe my issue is that when using href it will automatically start in the root folder but as I am not using href in this case it is not starting in the root folder. So I just need to find out what I use to link to a different folder to that of the html file (If I put the php file back in the root folder it works fine.
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The action and href attributes work exactly same. The final url depends on how you've written the url in these parameters and what is your current url.
Let's say the current url is http://localhost/my-project/html/my-form.html
If your url in action looks like php/contactform.php this is called path relative url. To get final url the browser will append relative url after last / in current url resulting in http://localhost/my-project/html/php/contactform.php.
You can use .. in the relative url if you want to reference directory higher in the structure. Url ../php/contactform.php will result in http://localhost/my-project/php/contactform.php
If your url in action looks like this /php/contactform.php it is root relative url. The main difference is the starting /. In this case the browser will put your url right after the domain name resulting in http://localhost/php/conactform.php.
Based on your screenshot both /php/contactform.php and php/contactform.php should work fine because the url of the html file should be http://your-domain.example/DJ_contactme.html so both urls should result in http://your-domain.example/php/contactform.php
If you are using mod_userdir your url probably looks like http://your-domain.example/~dannyjeb/DJ_contactme.html in that case the php/contactform.php should work as it would result in http://your-domain.example/~dannyjeb/php/contactform.php
From DJ_Contactme.html you target css file like this:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="./css/contactus.css"/>
I am trying to make a template for my website.
Basically taking out all the common stuff out using php's include function.
I have made a navigationbar.php and samplepage.php.
navigationbar has all the links to stylesheets etc.
When they are in the same folder and I include navigationbar.php in samplepage it works just fine.
However when i move samplepage.php to a subdirectory (leaving navigationbar.php in the same folder) and
link navigationbar.php with the menu doesn't come formatted.
it seems samplepage is getting contents from navigationbar.php but navigationbar is not linking to the css files.
Can anyone tell what I'm doing wrong here?
i'm using xampp and have tried with both relative and absolute paths- (include '../navigation.php' and 'localhost/folder/navigation.php')
Make the paths of your css files absolute (i.e. start with / and specify the full path). This will allow them to work correctly from any path.
When including a file in PHP, the url's are relative to the file you are including into. Not to the file you are including.
So you need to change your paths 'navigationbar.php'
Try using something along the lines of this to link to your header/footer files:
include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/path_to/header.php');
and then appropriately link to your .js/.css files within header.
Where your PHP files are has no direct influence. You have to make sure that the resulting HTML has the correct paths to all CSS/JS/img files etc. You may want to post your file structure here and show the code that calls the relevant CSS files.
I downloaded a Template + CSS File for a Website that I'm Building, the template worked well until I tried to break it down and put every code in its own file (for easy modification and editing in the future).
So, when I cut the head part which included (Title + Meta Data .. etc ), and put it in its own file, and replaced it (for sure) with an include() function, I lost the CSS styles and returned to the basic & standard style (Black & white with no extra format .. etc)
Where did I Go wrong? Knowing that here is the include function that I've used:
<?php
include 'files/head.php';
?>
With an URL like file:///C:/xampp/htdocs/test6/index.php PHP is NOT executed. You must run it with apache being involved. Currently you are opening your PHP script as a regular txt or html file - it is just passed to browser without processing.
In order to make include function work you must run it with apache. As you are using xamp, I think you should simply open it with URL like http://localhost/test6/index.php In this case, apache will get that request and pass it to PHP. PHP engine will interpret your PHP script and "replace" include files/head.php with a content of head.php.
If everything is Ok, after pressing Ctrl+U (or looking at HTML with Developer Tools or Firebug) you should see a content of head.php instead of <?php include ....
Please note that css files should be linked with relative URL like css/screen.css. Or absolute URL like http://localhost/test6/css/screen.css. like Search for relative and absolute URLs in google for more info.
I am brand new to PHP. I want to use it to include a universal header and footer in an html/jquery site. Currently I am using includes to do this:
<?php include('../includes/footer.php'); ?>
This works fine. Where I encounter a problem is with any images in the header or footer.
An explanation of my file structure:
Root folder: contains index.php and the folders "includes", "img", "php" etc.
php folder: contains gallery.php
includes folder: contains header.php, footer.php
When viewing the index.php all images in the header and footer show properly, but, because they are linked relatively (ex "img/facebook.png"), the do not show in gallery.php. To work they would need a ../ included. But then this would defeat the purpose of a universal header.
Thus I am trying to figure out how to link the images in the includes files in way that is doesn't matter where the php file is located. I have read this thread (which sounds like my problem) but I do not understand any of the answers. I have also read things that suggest $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] .'/folder/';, in conjunction with an echo to display the image. I tried this in my footer.php with this code:
<?php
$path = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/img/';
$image = ($path . "facebook.png");
echo "<img src=\"$image\" />"; ?>
When I view the page though, I end up with a little torn paper icon instead of my image. I assume this means that the path is incorrect, but I do not know why. facebook.png resides in the img folder. This problem occurs on both index.php and gallery.php.
After this rather long winded explanation (sorry), my mains questions are:
1) How do I get images to show up properly in my includes across multiple directories?
2) If I am going about this in the right way with the echo, what are the possible reasons why it is not working?
Once again, I know nothing about php, so if you could try to make your answers as basic as possible, it would be much appreciated.
Thank you!
Instead of img/facebook.png, add a / before the img/ like this: /img/facebook.png
This says "go to the root, and look for the img folder there. All your images should work fine then. The path of the images are absolute or relative based on the HTML page you're viewing, not which files you use to create it.
Though there's probably not much of reason for a "php" folder - just keep all your pages in the root directory.
I'm having problems with the paths to my first wordpress theme. Post images and stuff not related to css is located in wordpress_folder/blog-images/ and in index.php when I link to images I use this path: blog-images/img.jpg
The problem is now that when I want to link to the same image from another file (not index.php) in this case single.php wich displays one blog post, the correct path is now ../../../blog-images/img.jpg
This is causing problems in the includes like sidebar etc. sidebar.php works fine when called from index.php but the images path is changed if sidebar.php is called from single.php.
Does anyone know what's going on?
If you are creating these links from within php scripts, I would suggest using the site_url() function to get the URL for your wordpress install and then appending your images path to the end of that. If you are editing static theme files like css, then you should use /wordpress_folder/blog_images/img.jpg.
Something like <img src="<?php echo site_url() ?>/blog_images/img.jpg" /> should be sufficient from theme files.
The reason that paths are chaning is because if you are in wordpress_folder then the path blog_images/img.jpg resolves to wordpress_folder/blog_images/img.jpg but if you are on a post that has the url yoursite.com/wordpress_folder/2011/09/category/my_great_post then the path would resolve to wordpress_folder/2011/09/category/blog_images/img.jpg which is obviously incorrect.
For this reason you should try to use the absolute path or full URL so that no matter what file/folder/url you are linking from, the path will always be correct.
The main downside you may run into is that if you were to change the name of your wordpress folder, or remove it altogether, then you may need to make a lot of edits to reflect that. But in any case, you should put the / in front of your path so that it can be referenced the same from everywhere.
Also check out the site_url() reference page, it lists some other helpful functions at the bottom that may be useful to you.
I thought this was a little unclear from drew's answer, so I am adding a little bit more in a separate answer. His advice is sound and I agree with him.
If you prepend a url with a / then it will navigate based on your site url. Without the slash it uses relative navigation.
So here are some examples for www.mydomain.com
//always shows the image located at http://www.mydomain.com/myfolder/pic.png
//no matter what the url is
<img src="/myfolder/pic.png" />
//shows the image located relative to the current path
//if current url is http://www.mydomain.com/posts/ then the image will come from
//http://www.mydomain.com/posts/myfolder/pic.png
<img src="myfolder/pic.png" />
If you are creating links dynamically from php side then you will want to use site_url().
If you are creating links to your theme directory folder then you will want to use bloginfo('template_directory')