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I have just one header with the same links for my site, but one section of the site is in it's own folder, so for that header I have to change the links to point to ../../images/ for example instead of just images/. What's a good way of solving this so I can have links in the header that will work no matter where the html page is?
Use absolute paths?HTML Code:<img src="/images/.....">
Oh right! Feel embarrassed it's so easy, I got carried away from reading all these posts about templates
Well, an extension of this, is there a way to specify the links so when I'm testing them on my computer and then uploading to the server, I don't have to change any links? Something with document root?
Specify what exactly?
Well for example if I have some include files, that are outside of the public_html folder, how can I specify the links to those include files so that they work on both my computer and the server where I upload them? Would getenv('DOCUMENT_ROOT') work? But does that work for files that are outside the public folder?
Why would you have files outside of public_html?
Just thought it would be safer, for example including a file that contains functions that connect to the database.
True to some extent. You could "solve" this with a wrapper file or double include.
Put a file which includes the file in question into the root directory and then include this file instead of the original file. The only difference between your local copy and the remote copy would be that this wrapper file takes the original file from different locations (depending whether local or remote) and will not be replaced when you upload your files.
Just a workaround of course.
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