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

You have few options, which i've tried to gather here

base href

What it does, is sets all hrefs to point to certain path. With this set, you can use and successfully load mycss.css file even if you're page is deep down in http://www.mysite.com/pages/2012/public/secret_folder/myownphpfile.php

absolute paths

You can always use aboslute paths such as, but it can be a pain to change folders of files later on.

defined pats

As @Discomatt told, using PHP defined paths is a easy way to keep things working. Downside; you have to use PHP. if you use it anyways, no problems ^^

define('CSSDIR', 'http://www.mysite.com/css/);