php includes

[black.horizons]

do included files assume the directory position of the file from which they're included.

e.g.
website/includes/header.php - has links to ../index.htm

a file links.php resides in
website/links.php

if links.php includes /includes/header.php

with a link to index.htm, will the link work, or not?

[HuggieBear]

It's a simple enough test to try :)

But yes, relevant to the calling doc, not the included doc I believe.

Regards
Huggie

[wildteen88]

The included files become part of the file including them.

So if you included header.php from the includes folder into links.php which is in the website folder then all paths from header.php go from the website folder and not the lincludes folder.

[black.horizons]

thats what i thought, just i have a lot of sub folders, so for the subfolders i'll have to modify the header.php, and add an extra ../ to every a href. not so bad, unless there's something else i can do?

[hopeless]

Setting the absolute path at the top of every page seems to work for us - we then just have all inlcudes in one folder (same with scripts etc) and it yanks them out and works out he path.