[SOLVED] help with sharing a header and footer accross different folders

[misheck]

I am working on my first CMS and I have designed a header and footer that I wish to share accross my website folder. I have created a main folder with this kind of set up

 

Project1 -> (Folders) images,includes,javascripts,styles,functions, admin (files) index.php, content.php

 

files in admin index.php, edit.php, delete.php, etc.

 

My problem is for the header to display its images and scripts I need to copy the images and scripts folder into the same folder as the header. Is there anything I can do either to the header so that where ever I paste

<?php include('../includes/header.php');?>

It will use one global stylesheet and images folder?

[mattyvx]

you can use full url paths instead of ROOT links.

 

Like

http://www.yoursite.com/includes/header.php

 

should work!

[misheck]

I have tried that but its producing the same results because in the header I have a link to my CSS and javascript files etc.

 

I have also tried using

example<?php include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/location/to/my/file/root/includes/header.php'); ?>

 

It can read the header no matter how I put it even with ../includes but the only thing is it cannot read the css files and images for the header.

[trq]

you can use full url paths instead of ROOT links.

 

Like

http://www.yoursite.com/includes/header.php

 

should work!

 

That is a url not a filepath.

 

I have tried that but its producing the same results because in the header I have a link to my CSS and javascript files etc.

 

I have also tried using

example<?php include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/location/to/my/file/root/includes/header.php'); ?>

 

It can read the header no matter how I put it even with ../includes but the only thing is it cannot read the css files and images for the header.

 

You need also use absolute paths within your css and html.

[FaT3oYCG]

Baisc run down:

 

using / = site root, (root-relative) for example on WAMP it is the www folder.

 

using ./ = current directory, (relative) for example calling "./style.css" would mean that it would need to be in the same directory. NOTE: you do not have to use the ./ as any path without one is taken as using the current directory i.e. "style.css"

 

using ../ = the previous or containing directory (relative), basically the same as ./ but you read the contents of the containing directory and access the files from there (more than one can be used at a time) e.g. site->root->images "../../index.php" from then images directory would link to the index.php on the site root folder e.g. www on WAMP.

 

using http://www.example.com/ = the location you specify on any accessible website (absolute), you may need to enable allow_url_include in the php ini file to use this one and usually using the site root notation is preffered unless you are accessing a file from another site and including that.

 

Thanks,

 

Craig.

[misheck]

I tried using http://127.0.0.1/Path/to/my/includes but that also didnt work. So I am not sure about what you mean by absolute path.

[FaT3oYCG]

this path for example might be what you want.

 

/Project1/includes/header.php

 

which will use the site root and should work for all paths, if the images dont load then take a similar approach to any images that you have linked to and change their links to

 

/Project1/images/imagename.extension

[misheck]

Thanks thats working for the header and everything besides the footer. So I will play around with the footer for now.

[misheck]

Its now working but the only problem I am having is that the header.php is being called twice so I have to headers. So what I need to do is have a new function to check if the user is logged in and if not redirect to a login page.

 

Thanks everyone for your help.