linking xhtml loose dtd internally to .php/don't know where to begin

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Good Day! Sunshine!

I really do not know where to begin, and I have worked with .html and .xhtml for over seven years.

I bought a shopping cart and it is linked to my own .html and .xhtml pages, within the same //www./ file.

I have interim demo pages which are .xhtml. These are in a file, separate to the php pages. The ordinary internal links do not link back to index and so forth, unless I place the full path to the .xhtml site into every one of the links.

Next problem: I placed a correct path to the php pages in order to field language flags from the includes section of the shop cart, which is the php.

The images not only do not show, but they read whole www path\thumbnails\and then, the path to the php commerce files.

There is no thumbnails file in the way of the flag image files. The pages using the flags are within the thumbnails file.

This is the page URL.

[code]<a href="http://www.northdaysimage.ca/thumbnails/lil_thumbnails.html">Lilies Thumbnails</a>[/code] (for example)

then the image properties URL reads thisaway......

[code]<a href="http://www.northdaysimage.ca/thumbnails/Lightcraft/nfoscomm/catalog/includes/languages/english/images/icon.gif">path to icon</a>[/code]

I am new to using php files, and really, I do not know where to start. My sql base is a total mystery to me. My password does not access any areas that could clarify the database. It says access denied.I don't know how or where to add pages, or how to put them together (eg long lists of links).

I have a feeling that, in linking to the host service that their program is adding unnecessary file names.

Do you have an answer about this kind of thing?

Sue


ps: I am adding that I did change my path to the full path to my http://www. file, but I do not understand why I have to. ( in case anyone checks out the links I tried to make! (encased in code)

SR