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copied!<p>I recently decided to incorporate PHP into my website, but I've never worked with it before so I'm not familiar with the functions...</p> <p>My problem is that I am using the include() method for my header and footer on each PHP page like this:</p> <pre><code><?php include('../php/header.php'); ?> </code></pre> <p>This navigates from /public_html directory to the /php directory in the root of my website. To account for the different sub-directory levels that files may be located, at the top of each PHP page I add:</p> <pre><code><?php /* Path prefix so relative links work correctly */ $path = "../"; ?> </code></pre> <p>and ../ could be replaced with ../../ for a file another sub-directory down and so on, and in the header and footer files, links are preceded like this:</p> <pre><code><a href="<?php echo($path); ?>index.php" title="Home">Home</a> </code></pre> <p>and everything works fine like this...until I try to use it with wordpress which is located in a sub-directory on my website. Wordpress uses dynamic pages and so sometimes pages are located in a sub-directory lower than other pages and the links will fail to work with this method. In my old site design, I used the tag to set all link references to the root/public_html directory of my site. However, PHP is not affected by this tag. What I need is a method to set the the link references from the /public_html directory for my include() methods on the blog.</p> <p>Is there such a method or is there a better way to do what I am doing?</p>

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