Linking stylesheets with PHP problem

[satterfield.ben]

Alright, unsure how to categorized this problem but hopefully someone will know what I'm trying to do and give me some input.  We are developing a template web design for a bunch of projects coming down the pipe but I have hit a snag.

I am trying to reference a stylesheet from an include folder.  The php code that I'm using in my /includes/header.php is
    [color=blue]<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo 'http://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']).'/css/global.css' ?>" />[/color]

The code works well until I start organizing my files into folders.  On my index.php I use this code
    [color=blue]<?php include ('http://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']).'/includes/header.php'); ?>[/color]
That changes the .dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']) of my stylesheet reference to "includes/css/global.css" instead of "css/global.css"  The easy fix would to just hard code my URL,but I kinda need to figure this one out.  If I remove the "dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'])" and further add the location it works until I move this template into a working project into a different folder which is why we were using the code in the first place.  If someone could throw an idea or even label my problem so that I can Google it.

Thanks a bunch.
Ben Satterfield

[makeshift_theory]

Hi Ben, on your index file where you have dirname, use this instead echo dirname($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]), See if that works better for you.