Global File Referencing

Question

My basic file structure something like:

domain.com/
        home.php
        images/
                global/
                        nav/
                            nav-img.jpg
        includes/
                menu.php
        fruit/
                apples/
                        red/
                            gala/
                                gala.php

I want to create a global path establishing my web root that I can reference on the fly in each page wherever it resides. I'm trying to figure out how to use [for example] define(ROOT), and how to call it from an individual page.

Knowing that all pages use [menu.php], my obstacle is, for example:

From the gala.php page - when I click on [home], it looks for:

/fruit/apples/red/gala/home.php

But that doesn't exist.

Also, I'm trying to avoid these [2] things IF POSSIBLE:

Using html file references in gala.php like this: ../../../../includes/menu.php [to find the correct global include]
And avoid using link references in menu.php like this: /images/global/nav/nav-img.jpg

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Update

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SOLVED

Like others have posted, I ended up using:

define('ROOT',$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']); 
define('INCLUDES',ROOT.'/path/to/includes/folder/');

which worked well when I call it from the html with:

include(INCLUDES.'menu.php');  // or any file

This was great because I can find my includes no matter where they're called from... and this was easy once I figured out how to use it.

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Remaining Problem

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[for #2 above] The only remaining problem is that all my html links in the includes are broken where the include is called from a level other than from ROOT.

I found a workaround is to just use absolute paths like:

href="/images/global/nav/nav-img.jpg"

Is there a way I can create a DOCUMENT_ROOT type of file reference for image locations so my includes will always find them?

Paul Calabro · Answer 1 · 2013-03-15T01:33:13.467

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Perhaps, you could use $_SERVER information found here to assign a $server_root variable or a $prefix variable and base everything off of that.

edited Mar 15 '13 at 01:33

answered Mar 15 '13 at 01:27

Paul Calabro

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The only other thing I can think of is using this code in your (X)HTML: – Paul Calabro Mar 15 '13 at 01:32
Yea I just found `` thx paul. But that would break every other link on the page. – conceive Mar 20 '13 at 03:33
Thx for that idea too, tho `$_SERVER` looks like it's deprecated. – conceive Mar 20 '13 at 03:52

Global File Referencing

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