How to use relative paths for included files such as .css

Question

I have a header.php file which contains a .css file link.

When I \"include\" header.php into another php file in different fo

Answer 1

This is a reason many large applications will try to set a 'root URI' constant/variable when installing.

While /css/style.css will work if your application is located in the root directory of the domain/subdomain, it will fail if it isn't (/appName/css/style.css)

Store the absolute URI to the 'root' script folder along with other configuration constants/variables, and building absolute links becomes a breeze.

define( 'SCRIPT_ROOT', 'http://localhost/yourApplication' );
// ...
echo '';