directory question

[kpdvx]

This may be more of an HTML question, but here goes.

I've been building PHP websites for a while, and I've always built my user interface in a file called ui.php, and I include ui.php from my pages. This works fine, unless I include it from a directory within my root directory, like for example, /admin. The images and css calls are all off because it is trying to look for them in its current directory.

Is there any way I can set the image and css links to go to the root directory and go from there, so that my images will display from no matter what directory I include ui.php from?

Thanks!

 

[Hokey]

More of an HTML question ... but it is a common problem with all scripting because of the including scripts from other directories.


Here is how I have resolved the problem.
Use absolute urls instead of relative urls:

picture example:
<img src=&quot;

http://www.domain.com/images/picture.gif&quot;>

OR
<img src=&quot;/images/picture.gif&quot;> (notice the leading '/' at the start of the source)

instead of
<img src=&quot;../images/picture.gif&quot;>
OR
<img src=&quot;images/picture.gif&quot;> (no leading '/')

hope this helps