Agreed - use absolute paths - but DONT include the protocol://server
Best is:
<A HREF=/admin/mypage>
Not so good is:
<A HREF=/admin/mypage.php>
<A HREF=/admin/mypage.html>
Don't do this
<A HREF=http://www.mine.com/admin/mypage>
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You don't want your dev site linking to unreleased pages
in production etc.
I wanted relative, but after probs with web design tools, php and
having loads of sites to maintain I eventually had to bite the bullet
and now use absolute paths for all links. There are too many gotchas
balancing a tree of relative links.
Note that w3, recommend NOT include the file type in the link.
Let the server choose it for you: e.g.
<A HREF=/admin/mypage>
is better than than
<A HREF=/admin/mypage.php>
<A HREF=/admin/mypage.html>
etc.
A nice side effect is that you can start with static holding .html
pages and transparently substitute them, a page at a time to smarter
.php as you get the coding done.
Of course, you need a decent web server...
Regards
Jeff
-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 1:23 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [PHP] site root variable (for Generic Unix and Windows)
you could make your links absolute
ie..
/cat.html
so if you're in http://green/admin/admin.html
you would link to
http://green/cats.html
HTH
M@
> I am developing a PHP site under windows which is going to be deployed
> eventually on Unix (indeed when life gets less hectic will also
> be developed
> under Unix but that's another story).
>
> Anyway the header.html (included at top of every page) has links in it.
> However depending where the page is which is including
> header.html the links
> (from a relative point of view) will be different. For example for the
> index.php (which is in site root) the catalogue page is simply referred to
> as cat.html but from admin.html (which is in the admin directory
> under site
> root) ../cat.html would be required.
>
> A way to get round this problem seems to be to have a variable
> with the site
> root in it (i.e. $siteroot = "c:/pages/") however this is causing
> me a real
> headache. using
>
> echo "<a href=\"" . $siteroot "/cat.php">Catalogue</a>
>
> renders href to c:/pages/cat.php but then the browser tries to
> download the
> page as a file. I have also tried
>
> $siteroot = "http://green/
>
> (green being the domain) but this douse not work either.
>
> I would really like the solution to this to be platform independent.
>
> Ta in Advance,
> ben
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