Issues with relative paths in PHP includes - php

Before going on, I'd just like to say that I've tried pretty much everything, and I read a lot of questions here at Stackoverflow, but none of the solutions worked.
So here is the deal, I have a file ("empresaConf.php") that contains this code:
<?php
include 'navigator2.php';
?>
<div class="contTudo">
<div id="bgCorpo">
<div class="empresaConf">
<?php
include 'sqEsqInc.php'
?>
</div>
</div>
<?php
include '../rodape.php';
?>
</div>
</body>
</html>
As you can see, it is including "rodape.php". The problem is that in "rodape.php", I have an image that is in another folder, so when I include "rodape.php" in "empresaConf.php", the image path should change, since PHP include consider the file path to be the one that you're including other files, making rodape.php's image broken when I access "empresaConf". I want something to fix that so I have the image no matter what file I'm in. Here is the "rodape.php" code:
<div class="empresa">
/* below in the img src tag you can see what I'm talking about */
<div class="redeSocial">
<a href="http://www.facebook.com.br">
<img src="imgs/icons/iconFace42.png" class="iconeFace">
</a>
</div>
</div> <!-- Fim div .empresa -->
The folder structure is: "rodape.php" is in the root directory and "empresaConf.php" is inside a folder named "Empresa" (I would post a img but I can't).
Thanks in advance.
EDIT:
Sorry, I forgot a crucial detail, I'm also including "rodape.php" in other files such as "index.php". So if I change the img src to correspond "empresaConf.php", then in the "index.php" the image will be broken, since it's in the root directory, same as "rodape.php".

If it's an image accessible from the public side of things, the image can probably be accessed by the directory root. So if your index.php is in /index.php where / is the web document root and your image is in /imgs/icons/iconFace42.png you can access the image by
<img src="/imgs/icons/iconFace42.png" class="iconeFace">
Note the leading slash in the src attribute.

You have some options.
If rodape.php will only be accesed from that folder level, simply change the src to ../imgs/icons/iconFace42.png, if you will be changing folder deep then use an absolute path to the image. Another way would be add php code to set the src but that would be wast of resources.

When you include ../rodape.php, think of it like just putting the code from that file directly in the position where it was included. The path string will not change, as it has not been executed until it has been included.
In short, that is to say, things will be relative to the file that's being executed, not the file(s) that's being included.
<img src="../imgs/icons/iconFace42.png" class="iconeFace"
Using that image code should resolve your issues.

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relative path not working in html attribute in .php file

I tried to use a URL in the parent directory of the root but it's not working in the HTML attribute of the PHP file.
<?php
include ("../func.php"); // working, will include the file in the parent directory
?>
<img src='../testimg.png'/> <!-- It only looks inside the current directory-->
<img src='..../../testimg.png'/> <!-- If I mess around with the relative path, it still looks inside the current directory-->
However, if I delete the PHP code and change the file extension to .html, the relative path in img src works normally.
Why is this happening and how could I solve the problem? I am wondering is there any PHP configuration file I need to adjust?
I have been stuck with this problem for a long time and googled a lot but didn't find a working solution. I would be appreciated for any help.
I tried your code in my local with the following directory structure
root_folder
|---my_folder
|__index.php -> (this file contained your code above)
|---func.php
|---testimg.png
<img src='../testimg.png'/> showed my image perfectly.

Include html file with image using PHP

I am a newbie in website development.
here is my problem :
I have 2 HTML files. they are 'index.php' and 'header.php' . I try to include 'header.php' in to the 'index.php' using this code :
'index.php'
<body>
<?php
include("header/header.php");
?>
</body>
'header.php' contain this code :
<h1>Its header</h1>
<img src="img/006-tumblr.png" width="200" height="200">
its the folder hirearchy :
-index.php
--header
--img
-006-tumblr.png
-header.php
When I open 'index.php' , 'header.php' is included but the image is not displaying.
So how can I include 'header.php' with the image?
A good way of proceeding would be to have a folder "img" in your root public HTML path containing all images, eventually with subfolders to separate them. The reason for that is that your main controller is launching from root. In that way, wherever you call your image file, you just have to go to img/ in order to find it. The same logic applies to all media. So, if you intend to have video for example, you could have a main folder media with a img subfolder and a vid subfolder. This type of logic has to be defined at start of project so that you don't have to refactor in the middle of it.
The logic of including a file into another is different from linking a CSS file. When you include a PHP file, the entire code is added to the source file and then the server compiles the codes. So the image files and other resources should be addressed relative to the source document (not the included one). This logic is different in a CSS file and the resource files e.g. a background image is complied relative to the CSS file (Because a CSS may be used in different files hirearchy). So this will work:
<h1>Its header</h1>
<img src="header/img/006-tumblr.png" width="200" height="200"
Footnote: If you want to use header in different files with different hirearchy the solution for the question above is to set BASEURL for your document and setting the resource and anchores relative to the baseurl.
Giving location from root directory makes image accessible from any location.
<?php define('WEBSITE_BASE', $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"]); ?>
<img src="<?=WEBSITE_BASE?>/header/img/006-tumblr.png" width="200" height="200">
Best linking policy you should always follow to link static assets to your page so that it links wherever the item is used.

Load an image from included php not in root directory of server

I'm stuck in a simple thing as loading an image in php.
All included php files are in a directory called includes.
Index.php is in root folder.
When I call img src from the php file located in the root folder, I can see images.
But when I include a section that is supposed to load an image like that:
<?php include("includes/section.php"); ?>
calling this:
<div class = "right">
<h1> news </h1>
<hr>
echo '<img src="../img/do.png" width="200" alt="Rifrazione news/>';
<p class = "rightp">Blabla </p><br
</div><!--end of right-->
I get nothing
for images I prefare use global variable.
Try do something like this:
<?
$baseUrl = "http://localhost"; // CHANGE IT TO YOUR URL
?>
<div class = "right">
<h1> news </h1>
<hr>
<?
echo '<img src="'.$baseUrl.'/img/do.png" width="200" alt="Rifrazione news" />';
?>
<p class = "rightp">Blabla </p><br />
</div><!--end of right-->
The file you're currently in is your current working directory. So find the location of your image from the directory your index.php is in, that means probably removing the ../. If you have any doubts echo getcwd();.
NEVER do what Adam suggested. You should always use file system paths, never url paths to local files. EDIT Reasoning: Hotlinking is part of it as he may not be aware of why something isn't working as it has worked in other locations but mostly due to routing/.htaccess/url rewriting. If he were to move on later to an MVC or similar framework putting localhost/controller/action will not return his image, but he may not be sure why as this is a bad habit he has already picked up. The other reason was for ease-of-use, if he puts a path like ./image/here.jpg opposed to localhost*/here.jpg he may have to go through and rewrite every link if he were to migrate later to an external server.
Example to help visualize better:
If you have the following directory:
my_site/
js/
css/
images/
image.jpg
index.php
bob/
bob.php
contactBob.php
If you were viewing index.php, your link to images would be /images/image.jpg.
If you were viewing contactBob.php your link to images would be ../images/image.jpg.
In HTML5, you can declare the <base> as a DOM element.
After searching and testing...it was none of that.
The only thing missing was the php tag at the beginning of the bracket.
You don't need variables at all.
This syntax is working as intended.
<?php
echo '<img src="img/do.png" width="120" alt="Rifrazione news"/>';
?>
Thanks for jumping in, anyway.

Using absolute links in PHP included header

I would like to include a header in every page using PHP, so that when I edit the header I won't have to change it on every page. However I am pretty sure if I do that, the relative links will do it according to the page that the PHP is included in. Is there any problem using absolute links to do this? Sorry if this is a simple question and just wondering if there are any rules related to this.
<header>
<div class="navbar">
<img style="margin:10px;" src="../images/logo.png" alt="logo"/>
<img style="position:relative;bottom:14px;" src="../images/line.png" alt="line"/>
<img class="navbaricon" id="one" src="../images/home.png" alt="home"/>
<img class="navbaricon" id="two" src="../images/artist.png" alt="artists"/>
<img class="navbaricon" id="three" src="../images/releases.png" alt="releases"/>
<img class="navbaricon" id="four" src="../images/join.png" alt="join"/>
</div>
<div class="artists">
<div class="artistlinks">
<p>Brady Hartvigsen</p>
<img src="../images/artists/bradymain.jpg" alt="Brady Hartvigsen"/>
<p>Catalyst</p>
<img src="../images/artists/catalystmain.jpg" alt="Catalyst"/>
<p>Emmi Moffitt</p>
<img src="../images/artists/emmimain.jpg" alt="Emmi Moffitt"/>
<p>Frederik Jyll</p>
<img src="../images/artists/fredmain.jpg" alt="Frederik Jyll"/>
<p>J.R. Hansen</p>
<img src="../images/artists/jrmain.jpg" alt="JR Hansen"/>
<p>Kate Berry</p>
<img src="../images/artists/katemain.jpg" alt="Kate Berry"/>
<p>Ryan Cluff</p>
<img src="../images/artists/ryanmain.jpg" alt="Ryan Cluff"/>
<p>Silter</p>
<img src="../images/artists/siltermain.jpg" alt="Silter"/>
</div>
</div>
<script>
$("a:nth-child(4)").click(function () {
$(".artists").animate({width:'toggle'},500);
});
</script>
</header>
This is what my header currently looks like
You can use both absolute and relative paths. When using relative paths you have to make sure the path is relative from the file you are including from.
I would recommend to use relative paths, since moving the site to another server or path on the server would be much easier.
Also, you may be talking about relative html links. I solve that by setting a "rel" parameter in the main file.
Both types of relative solved in this sample:
/mysite/webroot/index.php
<?php
define('RELPATH','');
include_once(RELPATH.'../includes/header.inc.php');
...
?>
/mysite/webroot/otherpage/index.php
<?php
define('RELPATH','../');
include_once(RELPATH.'../includes/header.inc.php');
...
?>
/mysite/includes/header.inc.php
<html>
....
<body>
..
Front page<br />
Other page<br />
I believe you're referring to including a PHP file in another.
Is there a rule? No. But it is always best to stick to relative paths. Pay attention to the following:
If you use absolute paths to folders/sub-folders you'll have trouble when the site is moved to a different location (even within the same domain). So stick to relative references.
Have some sort of 'escape route' so that if someone tries to read an include file directly it should not make the system vulnerable. For example, you may have a variable set to a certain value and check for it in the file. This is not necessarily a security thing but it may prevent the site from 'behaving in an unexpected manner'.
Example of including a php file in another php file...
Steps:
1. Create a separate file (eg: myheader.php). Remember, this must be PHP. Not HTML.
2. Paste your header in it. Save.
3. In the file that needs to call it, include this line or something similar:
<?php include "myheader.php">
if the file is in a folder above the current folder, use something like this:
<?php include "../myheader.php">
To go two levels above the current folder, use this:
<?php include "../../myheader.php">
If the file is in a sub folder within the current folder, use this:
<?php include "SubFolderName/myheader.php">

php file path require syntax for importing a page

I have a directory called images and about and 3 php file on home directory
and 3 files and have different content
footer.php
This is footer <img src="images/logo.png">
header.php
<h1>Welcome to MyWebsite</h1>
index.php
<?php
require('header.php'); ?>
Enter your name : and some forms and javascript code
<?php
require('footer.php'); ?>
Now i have file in directory about as about.php
and it has some contents and below code is
about.php
<?php require('../header.php'); ?>
This is About page<br>
<?php require('../footer.php'); ?>
And when i open the page about.php, the footer is working fine but the image is not showing up, and image directory has image as logo.png
Even i used realpath to work out with relative paths, but could not display.
Even i tried this one too in footer.php
<?php
define('__ROOT__', images(__FILE__));
?>
This is footer <img src="<?php echo require_once(__ROOT__.'/logo.png); ?>">
I tried out the possibilites of relatives paths, do we have any other thing.
If I'm understanding your question correctly, the easiest solution is probably just to use an absolute path for your image tag in footer.php:
So if images is in your docroot, it would look like this:
This is footer <img src="/images/logo.png">
Including images in the php file makes absolutely no sense.
You have to understand the difference between PHP code and HTML code.
PHP code being executed on the server and have result of HTML code sent to the browser.
Where browser reads that HTML and do additional requests to the server to get images.
Thus, server filesystem root has absolutely nothing to do with browser.
As for the problem - Trott's answer is perfect.
Well if you are using include() to get certain section of the Page with PHP, there will definitely be a problem with links.
I believe the best practice is to call images using CSS. Just get a div with a class or id and place the relative link in the CSS.
It worked for me.
I got the answer for this questions
copy the below code in header.php and it will work every where
<?php
define('ROOT_DIR', dirname(__FILE__));
define('ROOT_URL', substr($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], 0, - (strlen($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']) - strlen(ROOT_DIR))));
?>
And where ever there is a image you src="" just put the below code only with imagename changed, and whatever you want.
<img src="<?php echo ROOT_URL .'/images/logo.jpg'; ?>">

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