how to define the server root?

[AeonE]

guys, I'have some question to ask
[quote]
eCom
| - eCom.php
|
| -Admin
| |- Admin.php
|
|- User
| |- User.php
[/quote]

where eCom is my TOP directory and Admin/user is a folder under eCom directory,

here's my question, how do I link those 3 together without repeating the hyperlink code? assuming in eCom.php I have created a hyperlink to Admin like this <?php echo "<a href=\"Admin/Admin.php>Admin Page</a>" ?> and of course my Home is <?php echo "<a href=\"eCom.php>Home</a>" ?>

so it looks like this in eCom.php,
[quote]
<?php echo "<a href=\"eCom.php>Home</a>" ?>
<?php echo "<a href=\"Admin/Admin.php>Admin Page</a>" ?>
<?php echo "<a href=\"User/User.php>User</a>" ?>
[/quote]

and for Admin.php,
[quote]
<?php echo "<a href=\"../eCom.php>Home</a>" ?>
<?php echo "<a href=\"Admin.php>Admin Page</a>" ?>
<?php echo "<a href=\"../User/User.php>User</a>" ?>
[/quote]

it works to link them together but...
I want a simple method that allows you to only need to define SERVER root to access files in that root, how you do that? meaning that I can remove this:

[quote]
<?php echo "<a href=\"../eCom.php>Home</a>" ?>
<?php echo "<a href=\"Admin.php>Admin Page</a>" ?>
<?php echo "<a href=\"../User/User.php>User</a>" ?>
[/quote]

for my admin.php , and only add include ('../eCom.php'); inside my Admin.php

what should I write in my eCom.php , please help!!!

many thanks

[craygo]

you can always make a file say configs.php. And in the file you can set up your pages

[code]$ecom = "http://ecom.com/ecom.php";
$admin = "http://ecom.com/admin/admin.php";
$users = "http://ecom.com/users/user.php";[/code]

then on the top of each page you can just put in

[code]require('configs.php');[/code]

Then you can reference each page with the variable

[code]<?php echo "<a href=\"$ecom\">Home</a>" ?>
<?php echo "<a href=\"$admin\">Admin Page</a>" ?>
<?php echo "<a href=\"$users\">User</a>" ?>[/code]

And if you need to add some parameters to it then you can do it like this

[code]<?php echo "<a href=\"$ecom\">Home</a>" ?>
<?php echo "<a href=\"$admin\">Admin Page</a>" ?>
<?php echo "<a href=\"$users?id=2\">User</a>" ?>[/code]

There are other ways to get the document root but you would still have to enter in the folders after the root.

Ray

[AeonE]

yeahhhh man it works,

thx alot