I have a ROOT, which has path of my project. Now, I am inside subfolder, and assets is outside of the subfolder. so how to get outside by using ROOT.
// output of ROOT is G:\xampp\htdocs\admin_main\
MY current folder is G:\xampp\htdocs\admin_main\dashboard\agent\manage.php
In manage.php I have multiple image tags and my images are in assets, which is in admin_main folder.
I can go easily by using like this
But, my task is to do that by using ROOT.
You can access the parent directory with ../
Since you made an edit to your post, this should work:
$path = "../../assets/"
but since I guess you're using this inside HTML only, you can do:
<img src="/assets/img1.jpg" />
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I have a PHP page on my site in a sub folder called Articles.
The page is article.php.
The article.php page requires a common php page called _head.php. This provides the header for the pages.
_head.php is located in the root directory.
The /Articles directory is a subdirectory within the root.
I've included this _head.php page in article.php this way:
<?php include("../_head.php"); ?>
And this works fine.
The problem, however, is that the image elements within _head.php are located in the 'images' subdirectory (also off the root) and are referenced relative to the _head.php being in the root, like this...
<img src="images/services.gif">
So if I use _head.php for files on the root, it works great and shows all the images correctly. But when I include _head.php into a php file that is not in the root, but instead in a subdirectory like /Articles (/Articles/articles.php), the images do not show up.
Do I need to change the _head.php file in how it references the images or is there some code I'm supposed to include in articles.php when including _head.php that tells it how to use _head.php?
I'm concerned about using all absolute paths because if I have to move this site to another server this is going to cause me issues.
Mentioning what I follow not going to the hierarchical complexity,
For any PHP file that is being imported into another PHP file in root simple include/require_once (<path>).
For any file below root accessing other file anywhere within the root I use include/require_once (../<path>).
For accessing files which are outside the root, I use the absolute path of that file.
Working on few php files what I have seen using absolute path is the best thing in two ways, a) you are free from remembering the paths of different files and b) if you are using CDN or if your files are on different servers then this is very helpful. Anyways opinions may vary, this is my personal view/choice.
I am trying to access to a folder using "include $path" inside a php file.
Inside the folder, it includes a lot of images, and in php, it includes many tags of img that accesses to the images inside the folder.
Is there any way to access to a image's path inside folder using "include"?
That is not what include is for.
Include let you include another piece of PHP (some class, some functions, whatever), it is not for 'accessing' some folder.
If you want to see the contents (images) of that folder, try scandir:
https://secure.php.net/manual/en/function.scandir.php
Also make sure your webserver has rights to read those files.
On *nix/apache this user is often named www-data (I have seen 'nobody' and 'apache' too as usernames). On IIS it is typically something like IUSR.
I need to be able to access a file in a folder located in the root directory on each of my pages.
Is there a piece of code I can use to type out the full directory going from the root folder to the specific folder I want and be able to copy onto each page without having to change the code?
For more clarification, it's hard to word, but I want to be able to link top my CSS file in the directory /css on each page without manually having to put ../../ etc.
Or does anyone else know the best way to link one style sheet to each page with ease?
If the root of your website has the path / (in other words, the address you type for the root of your website is something like http://mydomain.com/) then you can simply refer to your CSS files using /my.css or /css/my.css in all pages. The leading / tells the browser to look for these files relative to the root of your website.
You should be able to use a relative path of /folder path that will be accessible from all your pages.
You should also be able to do it the same was Cristian is recommending with:
$folder = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/folder path";
i have my web folder in c:/wamp/www/ which is the default webroot for wamp. Then i have a folder image in c:/image/ that contains images been processed by another application which i wont like to relocate. I want to be able to load up an image with its file name from c:/image/
e.g. img src = "c:/image/FA12.jpg"
within my PHP scripts. I really Need Help on this Please. Thanks for your support.
If you need to read a file into php use "c:\image\FA12.jpg". You may also create a link "file://c\image\FA12.jpg". There's no way to create a relative path, since it is outside root dir.
As per my knowledge it is better to create a folder of your images under your localhost or server ('var/www/images') to have a proper relative URL to that images.
Url's like c:\image\fa12.jpg can create problems when you make your product online. Other wise you can do provide static urls as kirilloid suggest or you can copy that images to some proper folder in your localhost sever with use of php function "copy" and use that folder as a reference. avoid static url's if possible.:)
as i have linux system now i tested below code locally. create one file test.php under /www and put below code in it and run file in browser. see if this can be your solution
<?php $link = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
$domain = strstr($link, '/www');
echo $domain;//this will output /www
$root = strstr($link, '/www', true);
echo "<br>".$root;//this will output /var
?>
You can try this by putting "/wamp/www" instead of "/www" in above code and you will get c:/ (perhaps) in $root and then appeng folder name images and path accordingly to $root.
May this will help you
From my previous experience, I've almost always had problems with linking files with my website projects.
For example, linking CSS styles, Javascript files and including files in PHP. The problem is, that on my PC, the directory of my project was /www/project-name/ and when I put the project on a server, the directory would be just /www/. When I uploaded the project to a server, images wouldn't show, styles wouldn't work, database connections wasn't set, functions were not defined etc...
So my question is: What is the best and most efficient way to link/include files?
Something that will work no matter what the directory of the project is, and possibly, if I include project/includes/mysql.class.php in file1.php, and I move that file to a different directory, it would still properly include project/includes/mysql.class.php
You should use relative paths.
Instead of specifying the full path ('/www/project-name/includes/whatever.php'), use a path relative to the current location:
'./includes/whatever.php'
you can define the document root directory of project and then, include all files depending on it
put
define(DOC_ROOT, realpath(direname(__FILE__));
in your front controller, and when you have to include a file
include(DOC_ROOT . "/includes/file.php");
all frameworks uses this method
I'd suggest using a relative path (eg ../style.css or ../../style.css)
The ../ references the parent directory to the current file.
This is what I do, in general.
I use root relative urls inside html (e.g. src="/images/logo.jpg"). This way I can just copy the html from one page and past it in another without having to worry about the link not working becase the other page is inside a folder.
I relative urls in css, because all the resources I use inside the css, like images, I keep in the same folder as the css file (or a sub-directory of it). I mostly do this because it is shorter (url(img/background.jpg); vs. url(/css/img/background.jpg);). Minor added bonus is you could just copy the css folder to create a new theme based on the old one, without having to change all the urls in the css.
In PHP I use include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/includes/mysql.php');. You can just copy past the code into another file in another folder and it will still work.
The only time I rarely need to hardcode paths is inside htaccess.