confused with the file paths 3

[DotNetGnat]

Guys,

I have the following folder structure(shown here only partially for ease of understanding) for login application on my web page.

Login
|- Admin
    |-admin.php
|- Include
    |-db.php
|- Images
    |-logo.png
|-login.php

alright...now...in the login.php page i have displayed the logo using the following code and it works fine.

<img src='images/logo.png'>

and on the admin.php page, i did the following in one section of the code.

<?php
include("../login.php");
?>

but now the logo does not get displayed and it points to

http://myserver/Login/Admin/Images/logo.png,

and obviously thats not the right path...how can I fix this to show the right path to the images folder...

thanks in adavance.

-DNG

 

[feherke]

Hi

Well, the path is relative to the outer file, not the included one. And for admin.php the relative path to the image is :

<img src='[red]../[/red]images/logo.png'>

I suggest to use absolute paths.

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[Sleidia]

I use this to get the relative path from inside any directory :

$dir_home = str_repeat("../", substr_count(strstr(sprintf("%s%s%s","[URL unfurl="true"]http://",[/URL] $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'], $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']), "[URL unfurl="true"]www"),[/URL] "/") - 1);

include($dir_home . "my_include.php");

$dir_pics = $dir_home . "my_pics_dir/";

 

[DotNetGnat]

guys,

I tried both the your suggestions but didnt get it to work...i am getting the following error...

include() [function.include]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration

any suggestions...

Thanks

-DNG

 

[jpadie]

if you are going to use url based file access you need to enable file access in your server configuration

allow_url.fopen = ON

otherwise you should use normal relative or absolute paths without protocol information for loading local files.
Feherke's suggestion is correct however it may be that your file system is case sensitive so, against your posted structure, you would use

<img src='../[red]I[/red]mages/logo.png'>

 

[DotNetGnat]

thanks for your suggestions guys...

it works when i use <img src='../images/logo.png'> on the login.php when i execute the admin.php page...

but when i execute the login.php by itself the above path gives me broken image again...

i need to put a condition saying that if the login page is called from the admin then have a different path...

what is best and efficient way to handle this situation.

thanks

-DNG

 

[jpadie]

but ... that would be right. because the path is relative to the file that is actually being processed (not included or required but the core file being processed).

if you cannot programmatically control where your files are being processed from then hard code your urls as absolute.

 

[DotNetGnat]

thank you all for your replies. I used absolute paths and it worked fine.

-DNG