Re: [PHP] absolute vs relative path?
On 1/25/06, William Stokes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I Have a web site on one server and a test site on another. How can I
build
the hyperlinks so that they work on both servers without modification.
The cleanest solution is to use relative paths so that your site will work
regardless of where it's placed on the web server. Sometimes it can be
tricky to determine what the relative path should be, but PHP can help solve
that. Simply write a function or method to calculate the path to the base
directory of the site. Make this a global variable and echo it before any
path to a resource on the site.
global $PATH;
echo a href=\{$PATH}images/blah.gif\ /\n;
Jason
[PHP] absolute vs relative path?
Hello, I Have a web site on one server and a test site on another. How can I build the hyperlinks so that they work on both servers without modification. For example build this link dynamically: http://www.domain.com/www/test.php In test server the same should be: http://internalserver/www/test.php Thanks -Will -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] absolute vs relative path?
Hello, I Have a web site on one server and a test site on another. How can I build the hyperlinks so that they work on both servers without modification. For example build this link dynamically: http://www.domain.com/www/test.php In test server the same should be: http://internalserver/www/test.php Well, for hyperlinks to local pages, you can leave off the domain part all together. So in the above example you would just use /www/test.php. Any hyperlinks to remote servers would be the same in test as they are in production. JM -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] absolute vs relative path?
On 25 Jan 2006 at 15:19, William Stokes wrote: Hello, I Have a web site on one server and a test site on another. How can I build the hyperlinks so that they work on both servers without modification. For example build this link dynamically: http://www.domain.com/www/test.php In test server the same should be: http://internalserver/www/test.php Non-php solution: Use relative links. Instead of referring to a page as http://www.domain.com/www/test.php;, rather just use /www/test.php or even just /test.php, if the script containing that link is already in /www. Thus your links will look the same on both versions. php-based solution: If you must have absolute URLs (maybe to do redirects or SSL) use: $_SERVER[SERVER_NAME] it will return either www.domain.com or internalserver. So you can build your links as: ?php $url = 'http://' . $_SERVER[SERVER_NAME] . '/www/test.php'; ? Geoff. Thanks -Will -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] absolute vs relative path?
Geoff wrote: On 25 Jan 2006 at 15:19, William Stokes wrote: Hello, I Have a web site on one server and a test site on another. How can I build the hyperlinks so that they work on both servers without modification. For example build this link dynamically: http://www.domain.com/www/test.php In test server the same should be: http://internalserver/www/test.php Non-php solution: Use relative links. Instead of referring to a page as http://www.domain.com/www/test.php;, rather just use /www/test.php or even just /test.php, if the script containing that link is already in /www. Thus your links will look the same on both versions. /test.php would refer to root. so it would be www.domain.com/test.php not www.domain.com/www/test.php (!) probably a small typo ;) Barry -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] absolute vs relative path?
On 25 Jan 2006 at 15:22, Barry wrote: Geoff wrote: On 25 Jan 2006 at 15:19, William Stokes wrote: Hello, I Have a web site on one server and a test site on another. How can I build the hyperlinks so that they work on both servers without modification. For example build this link dynamically: http://www.domain.com/www/test.php In test server the same should be: http://internalserver/www/test.php Non-php solution: Use relative links. Instead of referring to a page as http://www.domain.com/www/test.php;, rather just use /www/test.php or even just /test.php, if the script containing that link is already in /www. Thus your links will look the same on both versions. /test.php would refer to root. so it would be www.domain.com/test.php not www.domain.com/www/test.php (!) probably a small typo ;) Oops, twas indeed. Well spotted :- Barry -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] absolute vs relative path?
I would suggest to keep a simple variable $HOSTNAME in your config file. Thanks Richard On 1/25/06, William Stokes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I Have a web site on one server and a test site on another. How can I build the hyperlinks so that they work on both servers without modification. For example build this link dynamically: http://www.domain.com/www/test.php In test server the same should be: http://internalserver/www/test.php Thanks -Will
