I am currently building a gallery using some very basic php - namely the inclusion of:
<?php include("page.php"); ?>
but I'm running into an issue calling images.
To explain the situation, I am building a php page for each item of artwork I want displayed and instead of building 30+ additional pages in the root folder I have created a sub-folder (in this case '/art/' ) where all of the artwork pages will live. Linking to them is easy enough but when I go to view the pages items I am calling in such as header.php or footer.php don't appear.
Example:
<?php include("header.php"); ?>
Now, simply adding '../' resolves this issue and the header, footer and additional php items I need are imported.
<?php include("../header.php"); ?>
Unfortunately the images are not - all I get in their place is the default missing/broken image icon. Of course if I go into the headr.php page and add the '../' to each image I am calling in then it works great in the php files in the /art/ folder but then I get the exact same broken icons when I go to any pages in the root directory such as index.php.
The conclusion I am at is that while adding ../ does point the page inside the /art/ folder to look in the previous directory it is still trying to locate images from an image folder within the /art/ folder and not the /images/ folder in the root folder. I could easily just make a copy of the contents of the images folder and place it within the the /art/ folder but that seems redundant.
Is there a better, preferred solution to tell the php include where to look for the images? Or is it best to just house all php pages in the same root folder?
Oh I had this one before :),
It's an issue because when you import the file php just pasts
the file contents in the new file so the relative pathing is
then made from there.
TL;DR
Use dirname(FILE).'/'.(..) as your path's instead.
I hope you understand what I mean.
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if i am at the current address: "pages/tasks.php"
then click a link that has:
<li>Post Task</li>
my address becomes:
"/pages/pages/task-form.php"
i understand its because it is opening that link on top of my current folder depth. I know I can put all of the pages in the same folder, then delete the "./pages/". If I do that, then I cant access another page in a different folder. But what if I want to be able to change directories with pages, or stay in the same folder at the same time? I am using a header.php template for all pages.
If you are using MySQL, it will look something like this: localhost/folder/pages/task-form.php
Simply use as many '../' as necessary to back out directories until you get to the destination that contains the main folder. in my example mentioned above, the file is 2 folders deep, so it requires 2 "../"For this use:
<li>Post Task</li>
For your example:
<li>Post Task</li>
This will always take you to the main folder, then go to the destination of the file, even if youre already at it. The way you were doing it was simply opening the destination folder, and the file again, while still being at the folder, thus creating a duplicate of the folder. Important: You must use as many "../" as the deepest file you are accessing if it has a header.php linked to it. You can use 10 of "../" even if youre not 10 deep. It cant back out more than the most containing folder.
The problem is as follows:
Originally, all of the individual pages on my website were in the root folder of the site.
I have now moved the majority of the pages into various sub-folders.
For example: The main page for our Apache Totem Freestanding Light Box used to be in the root folder, but is now in subfolders: /lightboxes/apache-totem-freestanding-lightbox/index.php
The problem is that various elements of the page have “PHP Modules” included for common elements such as the header, the breadcrumbs, the footer, the css file etc.
For example, for the header we have as a link on each page.
The files that these “PHP includes” point to are situated in their own folder on the site root, called ‘modules’.
The trouble with this, is that the ‘PHP Includes’ can’t seem to find the modules because I guess they are expecting to see them in a folder called ‘modules’ that is situated in the same subfolder as the current page.
I’ve partially got around this by changing the link to the module to have ../../ in front to tell it that it has to look two folders up from the current folder, but the page is still having difficulties displaying all of the information.
To give you an idea of this, I have uploaded the Apache Totem Index Page in its subfolder /lightboxes/apache-totem-freestanding-lightbox/
https://www.w-co.co.uk/lightboxes/apache-totem-freestanding-lightbox/
As you can see, the main content of the page is displayed ok and the css file is doing its job with styling etc.
But there are various other problems, for example:
1. There is an image missing from the header
2. The quote button in the header and the content is pointing to the wrong place (quote.php is on the root folder but the button is trying to link to the current subfolder)
3. All of the items on the breadcrumb trail link to the current page
4. All of the links in the footer are also trying to point to the subfolder lightboxes
Is there anything you can think of to fix these issues?
Thanks,
Tony
The URL for the images should be something like this https://www.w-co.co.uk/images/worldpay/visa.gif
You have to use base URL https://www.w-co.co.uk and then image path. You can define("BASE_URL", "https://www.w-co.co.uk") and use it like in the following.
<?php
define("BASE_URL", "https://www.w-co.co.uk/")
?>
<img src="<?php echo BASE_URL;?>images/worldpay/visa.gif"
I want to make multiple pages on my website, but to keep everything clean I want to make different directoriess with the different pages. However, I use php to make a different file with my header that is included in all my pages, so I only have to change the code of my header once and it will be the same on all pages.
The problem is that the links I use in my menu items (like home, contact, about, etc.) will not work anymore when you're on a page inside a directory (I'll make an example below).
So my question:
Is there a home folder on a website (like ~/ on unix) or is there another way to make it work?
Example of my directory structure:
htdocs
index.php
header.php
menus
contact.php
about.php
(a link to index.php won't work anymore if you're on the contact.php page)
Sounds like you're using relative paths in your menu links. Use an absolute path instead by starting with a "/":
Home
About
or a complete URL:
Home
About
The home directory of a website can be accessed with a simple '/' at the start of the link you want to add. From there you can enter subfolders by appending the folder name.
Example:
'example.com/subfolder/subsubfolder/page.html'
So in the included image, you can see a copy of the website I'm currently working on. The site is going to have separate pages for each of the company's machines. Obviously the navigation bar and menu bar are going to be the same throughout the whole website so I thought I'd make use of a single line of PHP script to just load the menu in each time.
http://i.imgur.com/spVS3a4.png
(Attached image as I do not have +10 rep yet)
Though, from what I understand, the pages within folders (Not within root) wont be able to link to the rest of the site without the use of ../ within the href.
So if I load the menu part of the site containing the navbar, etc, it won't work on all the pages because they'll all be within different folders, meaning every folder will need it's own version of the navbar PHP import.
Am I going about this the wrong way? I'm just trying to minimize the amount of code I'm using on each page. Not only that, but once I finish the site if I have to make a change to the menu-bar, I don't want to have to update 30-40+ pages. I figured the PHP import would save me that sort of trouble? Is there a better way of doing this that isn't terribly complicated?
It should also be noted that I'm doing this in HTML5 with Twitter-Bootstrap as my main CSS.
I would also be making a similar PHP call that would import a footer as well.
If I missed anything that could be of help, please do ask.
TL;DR - How do I make links work throughout the entirety of the site, regardless of where they are in the folder hierarchy. Thought about using a tiny PHP script that would contain the menubar, etc and would be loaded on every single page. Though I'm not sure if that will work due to folders?
Try to start your links from /. This means that url is started from site root.
For example:
Patch Kettles
Just define a constant with the root path and echo it within all the links inside the pages that are contained in a folder like this:
[Put this in a file that you include through out your whole website (e.g. like the file with your database connection if you have one)]
define('BASE_URL' , 'http://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].'/');
Than just add an echo in the start of each link:
Home
And for images the same thing:
<img src="<?php echo BASE_URL; ?>images/img_01.jpg"/>
You can just use /path/to/image.jpg to get absolute paths, while still being fine if your domain name ever changes.
At present I am using an include statement to display all my menus. However I understand that some of my links are broken when accessing pages that are not located in the same directory.
Is there a way, by using the same link regardless of file location it will always access the same pages.
For example
My main folder currently contains:
Files =
index.php
shop.php
mensTShirts.php
I also have the sub folders:
html
php
images
includes
css
items
The main problem I have is that from by using an include statement from to get the navBar from the html folder the links included do not work when a viewing a file from say the items folder.
So my question is to find out how to make the navigation links work for specific pages regardless of file location.
I hope you can understand my problem, I am also kind of new to this.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Many Thanks
You should make config file to define your path. Then use the variable to include relative paths.