[SOLVED] dynamic nav bar

[thefortrees]

Hi all -

 

I am trying to implement a dynamic navigation bar. My problem is as follows -

 

All of my scripts are located in various folders, and as you move to different areas of the site, the links to the other areas of the site will change. For example, I am currently at home.php and the nav bar has references to admin/manage_users.php and companies/view_employees.php, etc etc. If I go to manage_users.php, I am now executing a script in the admin folder. The nav bar still has a reference to companies/view_employees.php, which would make this a dead link.

 

There are lots and lots of directories and subdirectories that one can navigate to, so I don't want to have to write code for a nav bar every time. Is there something like $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] that I can use that will help?

[Philip]

There is:

dirname(__FILE__);

 

That shows like /home/user/www/folder1/folder2/

 

What I did was, even though my PHP files are in a different folder I did:

$path = dirname(__FILE__);

include $path."/php/admin/head.php";

 

Hope it helps.

 

[soycharliente]

What's wrong with using $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']?

[Philip]

Nothing, I was just stating a different way of doing it. I guess I should have put in the word 'also' after "there is"

 

Sorry