[SOLVED] Mod - ReWrite in HTACCESS file working but not showing images

[winnard2008]

Hi

 

Our programmer before he left created a url re-write using the htaccess file. This works fine but the main image on the re-written page won't show up.

 

the code for the htaccess which brings up the article is this

 

RewriteRule viewarticle/id/(.*)/ showarticle.php?id=$1
RewriteRule viewarticle/id/(.*) showarticle.php?id=$1

 

and the only two things I can see in the relevant PHP file that affect the image are as follows

 

<?PHP

  $id = $_GET['id'];//get article id
  $article = mysql_query("Select * From Articles Where articleID = '$id'");
  while($row = mysql_fetch_array($article)){//get article info
    $articleTitle = $row['articleTitle'];
$articleText = $row['articleText'];
$categoryID = $row['categoryID'];
    
switch ($categoryID){
  case 6:
        $ai = "images/photographer_article_image.jpg"; //photographers
      break;
  case 7:
        $ai = "images/wedding_dress_image.jpg"; //bridalwear
      break;
  case 10:
        $ai = "images/wedding_cake_image.jpg"; //cake makers
      break;
  case 11:
        $ai = "images/wedding_car_image.jpg"; //wedding cars
      break;
  case 16:
        $ai = "images/wedding_flowers_image.jpg"; //florists
      break;
  case 17:
        $ai = "images/wedding_venues_image.jpg"; //venues
      break;
  case 41:
        $ai = "images/catering_article_header.jpg"; //catering
      break;
  case 62:
        $ai = "images/wedding_party_image.jpg"; //entertainers
      break;
  case 57:
        $ai = "images/sports_article_image.jpg"; //fitness
      break;
  default:
    $ai = "images/wedding_venues_image.jpg"; //venues
      break;
    }//end of switch


  }//end of while loop
  
?>

 

and then further down the page where the image is supposed to appear is the following PHP code.

 

<img src="<?PHP echo $ai; ?>" alt="Wedding Advice Articles.">

 

 

The redirect make the image file location be as follows /viewarticle/id/images

 

but all the images are stored in the root /images folder.

 

 

How the hell do I get the images to appear?????

 

I am sure it is something i need to add to the htaccess file or a code error. Altho the code worked fine in PHP4.3 and now doesn't in PHP5.2.6

[paulman888888]

So you want help with PHP or .HTACCESS?

 

I dont understand the question.

 

Why dont you ask your old programmer

[winnard2008]

Well I aint sure whether it is the htaccess page that is causing the image not to load or the php script.

 

 

Our old programmer is now uncontactable, so we are screwed. I have been a programmer for a week.

 

 

[rhodesa]

this isn't an HTACCESS issue...it's just an HTML/PHP issue...

 

if you use relative paths to the images (images/wedding_dress_image.jpg) it will look for it from the current URL location. to get around this, either make your images paths absolute ones by adding a slash to the front:

/images/wedding_dress_image.jpg

or use an HTML BASE tag inside the HEAD tags of your page:

<base href="/" />

[winnard2008]

LEGEND!!!