[Solved] Including header from a different directory

[mydas]

Hi guyz,

I'm havin' problems with including a header file from another directory.

i.e. when i'm including 'header.php' (that uses images with path 'style/x.jpg'), all is fine in dandy, but when i go to 'admin/index.php' and include '../header.php', the images don't show.

What to do? ^^

[chrisjenkinson]

Use absolute paths for your image files.

[lolninja]

An example of an absolute path would be '/images/my-awesome-title.png', the leading '/' in the path tells the browser to download the image from the document root, so say for example your domain was 'http://www.example.com' and you were in your admin direction, with the loading '/' it would download the image from 'http://www.example.com/images/my-awesome-title.png'.

But without the leading slash, like you currently have, the browser is appending the file path onto the currently active directory, so whats happening is the browser is looking for a file at 'http://www.example.com/admin/images/my-awesome-title.png', which is what is causing you issues.

[mydas]

Ok, makes sense.

But currently I'm using Wamp, which means the site is hosted locally, and '/' refers to my current root of the drive, and that's not the same as the document root.

How do I find out the document root, and address it?

[lolninja]

Within wamp / isn't the same as c:/, when you do '/images/title.png' that should map to 'localhost/images/title.png', which depending on how you have wamp installed should be something like 'c:/wamp/www/images/title.png'.

[mydas]

Within wamp / isn't the same as c:/, when you do '/images/title.png' that should map to 'localhost/images/title.png', which depending on how you have wamp installed should be something like 'c:/wamp/www/images/title.png'.

Ok, and what's the solution?

[lolninja]

Put a / in front of your images in your css, or src attributes. Basically where you have 'style/x.jpg' put '/style/x.jpg' and that should work.

*edit*
If that doesn't work if you paste some code that will help narrow down your issue.

[mydas]

It worked. Thank you very much.