(php) links in echoed pages..?

[Colin-uk]

ok say my directory structure is like this..

/public_html/
index.html

/public_html/css/
index.php
files.php

/public_html/css/data/
page1.html
page2.html

page1.html has a link to files.php
(../files.php)

if i put the following code in /public_html/css/index.php will the links point to /public_html/css/files.php or will it point to /public_html/files.php (which doesnt exist) ?

<?php

$data = file_get_contents('page1.html');
echo "$data";

?>

hope i explained that ok...

Thanks
Colin

[JamesT]

It will point to /public_html/css/files.php.

../ Goes back one directory. and ./ is the the current directory.

What i would to save complication in the future is define a variable, say called $dir_root which would containt the full root to your base directory. EG

$dir_root = 'http://www.yourwebsitename.com';

You can put this in a file called config.php and call it from every page or you just define that variable on every page.

So you would link like this to the files.php in the css folder.

<a href="<? echo "$dir_root"; ?>/css/files.php">

Hope you understand, because when i read it back to myself, didnt make sense :0

[Colin-uk]

Thanks James, much appreciated and thats a cool idea, might do that in the future

[JamesT]

No Problemo

[greffov]

one thing that comes to my mind:

Why? (would one want to do such thing?!?!?!?)

[Colin-uk]

Well i have a script that out puts a message based on whether the script failed or was successfull or not...

i could just echo the words "success" and "failed" but that just one word on a blank white page, doesnt really look v good, so i keep my page layout in a text file and echo that instead