included file, directory depth

I want to include a common menu in all of my sites pages. Calling the file
from any page is easy enough, linking to menu.php, ../menu.php, or
.../../menu.php depending on where the particular web page is stored.

The problem is, using the same menu.php file with links to various pages on
the site, the paths get broken. A page two levels down will give menu items
linking to the deep-down directory, when really I want the menu links to
point to the top directory.

Is there a function that can somehow detect what directory level the calling
file is at, so that I can program the php to include as many ../'s in the
menu as necessary?

Thanks.

"Steve Greenaway" <macfisto@engsoc.org> wrote in
news:EWgNd.78501$rd7.1495189@weber.videotron.net:

> I want to include a common menu in all of my sites pages. Calling the
> file from any page is easy enough, linking to menu.php, ../menu.php,
> or ../../menu.php depending on where the particular web page is
> stored.
>
> The problem is, using the same menu.php file with links to various
> pages on the site, the paths get broken. A page two levels down will
> give menu items linking to the deep-down directory, when really I want
> the menu links to point to the top directory.

The best solution here is probably to hard-code absolute links in the
included menu file. Instead of e.g. <a href="feedback/index.php"> you'd
want <a href="/feedback/index.php"> with the forward slash in front. That
way the links will always point to the same place, regardless of where
you are on the site.

> Is there a function that can somehow detect what directory level the
> calling file is at, so that I can program the php to include as many
> ../'s in the menu as necessary?

getcwd() can give you what you need to do this, or you can do a
substr_count() and count the number of slashes in $_SERVER[REQUEST_URI].

hth



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Don't use relative paths, use absolute paths instead, eg.

/www/yourdomain/public_html/include/menu.php

regards

alex

Steve Greenaway wrote:
> I want to include a common menu in all of my sites pages. Calling the file
> from any page is easy enough, linking to menu.php, ../menu.php, or
> ../../menu.php depending on where the particular web page is stored.
>
> The problem is, using the same menu.php file with links to various pages on
> the site, the paths get broken. A page two levels down will give menu items
> linking to the deep-down directory, when really I want the menu links to
> point to the top directory.
>
> Is there a function that can somehow detect what directory level the calling
> file is at, so that I can program the php to include as many ../'s in the
> menu as necessary?
>
> Thanks.
>
>