Including AJAX/PHP Chat App Files

[Thaikhan]

Hey guys,

 

I've built an AJAX/PHP user chat box within public_html/chat/...    and what I would like to do is reference public_html/chat/index.php within the home page of my website and have it function as it does when you navigate to the index file itself.

 

I've tried:

include '../chat/index.php';

It will display the contents of the index file but it doesn't reference it's style sheet or function.

 

What is the best way of going about doing something like this?

 

Thank you in advance!!

[AbraCadaver]

Post the stylesheet link and function (I assume JS) link.  Most likely its a path problem.  If you have something like this:

<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='style.css' />

You probably need to change to this:  'chat/style.css' since the links are relative to the homepage from where you are doing the include.

 

If it needs to be dynamic, then you can do something like this in the script for the chat app:

$path = basename(dirname(__FILE__));

And then use the $path var in your links.

 

[Thaikhan]

Awesome. Thank you Abra.