subdirectory linking issue

[savage]

Hello

 

sorry if this is incredibly beginner, it is my first post, and couldn't find anything / didn't know what to search for

 

I have set up a navigation menu in "core/linkmenu.php"

 

which shows my navigation links e.g.

 

<a href="index.php">Home</a>

 

and included it in the first directory page index.php with "<?php include("core/linkmenu.php"); ?>"

 

so there is a link on the index page (index.php) and all pages in the same directory level to the navigation links found in core/linkmenu.php

 

 

However in my subdirectories, if I try to use <?php include("../core/linkmenu.php"); ?>

it will take me to /subdirectory/index.php. and thus return an error page. as the actual page is a directory higher.

 

so what should I do to remedy this?

as I would like only 1 page that holds the navigation links and not create different linkmenu pages for each subdirectory level.

 

Thanks very much for reading and hope you can help me out

[Jessica]

Your links need to be the full path. Either with the domain or just from the root folder. 

 

[savage]

ah yes that would work. thanks very much. However is that accepted practice? as if you were editing/testing offline using localhost root folder then you would have to change every link to the online server every time you wanted to upload editions

[Jessica]

You either don't use the domain, or you set up the domain as a server variable. 

[savage]

ok not entirely sure what that means, but thanks for the reply and I will look into what you recommend

[Jessica]

If index.php is in your webroot, the link should be "/index.php"

[jcbones]

I always set up my paths in my constants. This way if you are changing directories, you only have to change it in one file to affect the whole site.

Example:

define('PATH',$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']);
define('SITE','http://' . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']);

[savage]

sorry late reply.

 

Thanks very much for your advice from both of you.