Help With Includes On Testing Server

[backsmith]

Hi

 

This is aquestion about absolute and realative addressing across a web host and a local testing server.

 

I have just upgraded to Dreamweaver CS6 and want to use the php testing server. Previously I was just uploading everything and testing on the remote host.

Problem is that I use lots of includes in my pages. Content is in a directory tree. This is an example.

 

Content/conditions/back_pain/muscles.php

 

which looks like THIS

 

<?php

include("/home/linweb15/b/mysite.co.uk-10629534829/user/htdocs/externals/main.php" );?>

 

Thats the whole page.

 

I use the full path because I use the same main.php to set out the layout for all the pages and a relative link fell down and I dont want to use a differnt relative path in each php file..

 

 

Then in the included main.php I have this function.

 

function curPageName() {

return "content/".substr(substr($_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"],strrpos($_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"],"/")+1),0,-4).".htm";

}

 

 

Any in the middle of the page I put

 

I use <?php

include( '/home/linweb15/b/mysite.co.uk-10629534829/user/htdocs/'.curPageName() );

 

?>

which drops in the text from "content/muscles.php"

 

All works fine on the remote web host.

 

BUT

 

These long file paths are no use on my testing server which is at c:xampp/htdocs/mysite

 

I think I need to use a variable set to the first part of the file path and for this to be different on the host and the testing server.

 

eg

/home/linweb15/b/mysite.co.uk-10629534829/user/htdocs/

or

c:xampp/htdocs/mysite

 

 

 

At last the question.....

 

How is this best done?

 

Thanks

 

John

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