php links don't work

[alejandro52]

I have some links created dynamicaly with php. But i have the following problem. When i am in the root folder ieg. localhost/myPage/index.php the links work fine because they link in a file named entry.php. but when i am in a folder ieg. localhost/myPage/users/authors.php and i click the links they try to go to  localhost/myPage/users/entry.php and i want them to link not inside the folder but to the root folder localhost/myPage/entry.php.

[mraza]

can you show some code?

[alejandro52]

Can you understand what i am saying? The links go to <a href="entry.php"/> wehre entry.php is located inside localhost/mypage/ and when i click on thef from a file inside localhost/mypage/anotherfolder/index.php the link won't work cause it takes me to localhost/mypage/anotherfolder/entry.php and i want to go to localhost/mypage/entry.php

[alejandro52]

  echo "<div><a href=\"auth.php?auth_id=".$row["auth_id"]. "\" class='sidebar_name'>".$row["fname"]. " " .$row["lname"]."<a/><br/>";

This takes me to localhost/mypage/auth.php?auth_id=".$row["auth_id"].  this is a sidebar menu , o use it with a dreamweaver template throughouth the site. when i click it from /localhost/mypage/user/staff.php it takes me to /localhost/mypage/user//auth.php?auth_id=".$row["auth_id"] where it should take me to /localhost/mypage/auth.php?auth_id=".$row["auth_id"]

[fortnox007]

Maybe define a sitepath and place that infront of your variabe page part.

That way you can move the files on your computer but if you keep the same map structure, you only have to edit the sitepath.

[mraza]

you can use it with DOCUMENT_ROOT

$dcroot = getenv("DOCUMENT_ROOT");
$dcroot . "/mypage/user/auth.php";

[Adam]

If you don't specify a path for the links, they'll default to the same directory.

 

You need to specify either the relative path from the current directory:

 

href="../entry.php"

 

Relative from the document root:

 

href="/myPage/entry.php"

 

Or an absolute URL:

 

href="http://localhost/myPage/entry.php"

[fortnox007]

mraza, may i ask if that is a secure way, or does it has the same downside as a $_SERVER var.

I really don't know so i thought i ask thx for this btw

[alejandro52]

SO if i have my site say at http://www.mysite.com it yould be ok to name my url link href=" http://www.mysite.com/entry.php' or would this slow the site responce?

[mraza]

mraza, may i ask if that is a secure way, or does it has the same downside as a $_SERVER var.

I really don't know so i thought i ask thanks for this btw

please read more about getenv at here http://php.net/manual/en/function.getenv.php

and ofc is secure as per my knowledge

a comment from php.net

This function is useful (compared to $_SERVER, $_ENV) because it searches $varname key in those array case-insensitive manner.

For example on Windows $_SERVER['Path'] is like you see Capitalized, not 'PATH' as you expected.

So just: <?php getenv('path') ?>

 

[fortnox007]

Thanks I read it ;-)

[Adam]

SO if i have my site say at http://www.mysite.com it yould be ok to name my url link href=" http://www.mysite.com/entry.php' or would this slow the site responce?

 

Yeah that's perfectly fine, it won't make any difference with speed. All it is a path so that the browser knows where to go. I'm not sure what mraza's suggesting with using the server's document root, but $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] (which ever way it's accessed) is the server's file system path to the document root, not the browser's / publically accessible path.