On Apr 23, 12:23 pm, "Rik Wasmus" <luiheidsgoe...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:34:01 +0200, Jerry Stuckle
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>
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> <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
> > Bruno Rafael Moreira de Barros wrote:
> >> On Apr 22, 8:16 pm, "Rik Wasmus" <luiheidsgoe...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>> On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:01:13 +0200, Bruno Rafael Moreira de Barros
>
> >>> <brunormbar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> I have this framework I'm building in PHP, and it has Search Engine
> >>>> Friendly URLs, with site.com/controller/page/args... And on my View
> >>>> files, I have <?=$this->baseURL;?>
> >>> Don't rely on short_tags, and especially not on <?=$var;?> syntax..
>
> >>>> to print the base URL on the links
> >>>> (eg. <a href='<?=$this->baseURL;?>/controller/page/args'>Go
> >>>> somewhere</
> >>>> a>. But on the CSS / JS files, how will I do it? I wonder, because on
> >>>> the View files, I can do <?=$this->baseURL;?>/css/site.css, and it
> >>>> will work. But images on the CSS stylesheet don't have the same
> >>>> possibility, and they can't be static URLs for code portability, nor
> >>>> they can be relative URLs because they would just get added to the
> >>>> Search Engine Friendly URL.
> >>> Unless there's an extra path not in your example, if in baseURL there
> >>> only
> >>> is a domain name, you can leave it out all together...
> >>> href="/css/site.css" will just get it relative from the root, which is
> >>> my
> >>> preferred method.
> >> Yeah but the problem is if my scripts are not deployed on the root...
> >> It is really bad.
>
> > If you're talking about using include(), require_once(), etc., that's a
> > different story. But the client doesn't see those as links anyway, so
> > it doesn't make any difference search engine wise.
>
> > Like Rik says - just use relative links.
>
> It think he's looking for a 'just dump anywhere package' solution (so it
> may be in root but also on a different level). In which case, URLs in CSS
> stylesheets to images for instance are somewhat trickier. I'd say the most
> flexible solution for that is to use a simple PHP file as CSS augmenting
> the URL as needed.
> --
> Rik Wasmus

Precisely. I was just wondering if any of you knew of any solution
that would solve that. Apparently, there isn't. I think having a PHP
wrapper might be the way to go. I'll try it.