Posted by Shaun on 05/05/05 15:52

Sorry for double posting, these took an hour to appear in my newsreader and
I thought there was a problem with the first one I sent

"Shaun" <shaunthornburgh@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:20050505120107.19592.qmail@lists.php.net...
> Hi,
>
> I have a file called application.php and in this file I define all of the
> directories in my site:
>
> class object {};
> $CFG = new object;
>
> $CFG->wwwroot = http://www.mydomain.com;
> $CFG->dirroot = "/usr/home/myaccount/public_html";
>
> $CFG->admindir = "$CFG->wwwroot/admin";
> $CFG->claimsdir_adm = "$CFG->admindir/claims";
> $CFG->clientsdir = "$CFG->admindir/clients";
> $CFG->cssdir = "$CFG->wwwroot/css";
> $CFG->expense_categoriesdir = "$CFG->admindir/expense_categories";
> $CFG->projectsdir = "$CFG->admindir/projects";
> $CFG->shoppingdir = "$CFG->wwwroot/shopping";
> ...
>
> This works very well and means if I change a directory name or move a
> directory I only have to update this file. application.php is included on
> every page so all I have to do to link to another directory would be
> something like:
>
> <p>Click <a href="<?php echo $CFG->expense_categoriesdir;
> ?>?action=add_expense_category">here</a> to add a category</p>
>
> The problem with this is that the URL's include the
> http://www.mydomain.com/ and are therefore not relative links. Is there a
> way to link to the root directory from wherever I am within the directory
> structure?
>
> Thanks for your advice

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