PHP Website Basics Directory Structure

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I have a newsletter 3rd party system. It has been working really well however I have come across an issue which I'm hoping is a really easy fix.

So this is the root structure of my website

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/index.php
/news.php
/shane/shane_about.php
/mailist/globals.php
/mailist/mailbar.php
/mailist/mailbar8.php

So I have an input box which allows me to register for a newsletter. It works a treat on index.php and news.php however screws up the whole page on shane_about.php because its in a child directory shane.

Now the problem is in the globals.php

<?php 
$main_dir = "maillist/";
$website = "http://www.mysite.com/";
$relative_string="index.php?page=mail&";
$absolute_path="/hostingcompanyserver/something/something/something.com/maillist/";
$lang="lang_english.php";

So I changed the variable $main_dir to "../mailist/"

This then worked on the shane/shane_about.php, then index.php and news.php had the same issue (it screwed up).

I'm sure the solution is very basic, any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks Chris

Nathan Dawson · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-23 12:14:17Z

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Change $main_dir to an absolute path.

If it's the same as $absolute_path you won't have this problem.

$main_dir = "/hostingcompanyserver/something/something/something.com/maillist/";

The problem at the moment is index.php and news.php look inside maillist as defined by $main_dir. shane_about.php looks inside /shane/maillist/.

You then told it to go up a directory to maillist with ..maillist/. This meant shane_about.php was looking in the right place but index.php and news.php weren't.

By using an absolute path all files look in the same place.

answered Mar 23, 2014 at 12:14

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Smokey Over a year ago

That worked a treat, thank you for explaining it too, that made sense :)

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