HTML including CSS using PHP

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I am trying to build a one-page dynamic site and I've hit a roadblock. Since URLs like:

index.php?page=Tutorials&Article=0

aren't really all that pretty, I decided to use .htaccess to rewrite URLs, in this case like so:

Tutorials/Articles/0

But that means most of my includes won't work since I use paths relative to the root path of the site:

js/jquery-1.9.1.min.js

I've tried to work around these by using the following code included at the beginning of index.php:

$str = dirname(__FILE__);
$str = str_replace('\\','/',$str);//since i'm using localhost for development, the paths contain backwards slahses so I replace them
$str.='/';
define('ROOT_DIR', $str);

And including everytinhg with php:

echo ROOT_DIR.'js/jquery';

But this aproach doesn't seem to work very well, even though the paths apear to be generated ok:

<script src="C:/xampp/htdocs/Tzeny/js/jquery-1.9.1.min.js"></script>

My question is can you help me find another solution to include my files corectly or to make my solution work?

For first pages it works, so:

Tzeny/Tutorials

works but

Tzeny/Tutorials/Categories/0

doesn't include anything. I used both /Tzeny/ and /. Any more ideas please? Or should I just go back to normal URLs?

Emanuele Pavanello · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-10 13:55:31Z

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You need to use absolute path. Example : if your domain is www.domain.com/Tzeny/index.php?page=Tutorials&Article=0 into each file like index you need include scripts like that :

<script src="/Tzeny/js/jquery-1.9.1.min.js"></script>

answered May 10, 2013 at 13:55

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Community · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-20 09:12:55Z

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Just use absolute urls

<script src="/js/jquery-1.9.1.min.js"></script>

If you're not using virtual hosts for your local development, you can make the root of your urls a variable - so that the same code works irrespective of where you run it

Example:

<?php //pseudo code
if (on localhost) {
    $root = '/' . dirname(__FILE__); // example
} else {
    $root = '/';
}
?>

<script src="<?= $root ?>js/jquery-1.9.1.min.js"></script>

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Orangepill · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-10 13:59:56Z

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if the index.php is on the document root your code would work by setting

$ROOT = "/";

if it's being served out of a directory you can try a

$ROOT = "/".str_replace(rtrim($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'],"/", '',$ROOT);

hope this helps.

answered May 10, 2013 at 13:59

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