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Asked: 2026-05-14T15:52:16+00:00

Alright so im done doing pages with frames, and know i splitted up my

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Alright so im done doing pages with frames, and know i splitted up my design to top.php and bottom.php. In top.php it’s linking to style.css and ajax_framework.js and such.. Now this works great until i tried to include top.php & bottom.php in videos/index.php (another dirr), i did like this:

include "../top.php";
<-- and the originally index.php -->
include "../bottom.php";

Now when i enter the site, it wont load style.css, probably because it thinks that style.css needs to be in videos/ directory, same goes with ajax_framework.js that are both files are on the parent ../ directory.

Now what do i do? Some method or technique to solve this in a good way? So i dont have to copy style.css and ajax_framework.js into every directory i have, because then later if i want to change something i would need to change in all directories, which would be my last thing i want to do.. hope you got some nice techniques thank you

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  1. Editorial Team

    You have at least three options:

    1. Make all your resources URL absolute URL. For instance, change <script type="test/javascript" src="scripts/foo.js"> to <script type="text/javascript" src="/scripts/foo.js">. If you can do it, it’s by far the less intrusive solution.

    2. Set a BASEDIR constant before you include top.php and make every resource path relative to it:

      // in your file that includes top.php
<?php define('BASEDIR', '..'); ?>
// in top.php
<?php if(!defined('BASEDIR')) define('BASEDIR', '.'); ?>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo BASEDIR; ?>/style.css"/>

    3. Add a <base> HTML tag in your <head> (this one sucks, don’t do it):

      <base href="/foo"></base>
<!-- now all srcs, hrefs and whatnot are relative to /foo -->

      Its sucks because even anchors will be relative to it. So if you have a link like <a href="#foo"> on the page qaz.php, with the <base href="/bar">, the link will point to /bar#foo instead of qaz.php#foo.

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