include()'ed html file not displaying img's

[cedricganon]

Hello

 

So in my index.php code i include('somefile.html');. In the html file itself there is an <img src="/images/picture.jpg">. When looking at index.php on a browser, the html looks fine everything loaded fine except for the <img> There is a little broken image link displayed on the page. i checked through the browser if i mistyped the img src link but somefile.html in the browser displays the image fine. But if i try to display the img in the html file through the php file, its a broken link. Any reason why this is happening? Am I missing something here? Thanks in advance.

[Spring]

is somefile.html in a separate folder than index.php?

[cedricganon]

yes it is. to give you an idea of the structure its something like this:

 

index.php: root folder

 

somefile.html: /dir1/dir2/somefile.html

picture.jpg:  /dir1/dir2/images/picture.jpg

 

the images folder is located in the same folder as somefile.html. I've tried using a path relative to the root folder for the image ie:

<img src='/dir1/dir2/images/picture.jpg'>    as opposed to a path relative to somefile.html:    <img src='/images/picture.jpg'>

neither presents an image

 

 

[PFMaBiSmAd]

A leading slash on a link/URL refers to the root of the domain (i.e. a domain relative link/URL.) All the URL's you have shown in your post are trying to find the file starting at your domain root -

 

http://yourdomain.com/images/picture.jpg

http://yourdomain.com/dir1/dir2/images/picture.jpg

 

Relative URL's either start with a dot or double-dot or are just the filename.

[cedricganon]

fixed it! Thanks!