Question

I am a bit lost here, solution could be lurking under my nose but I couldn’t get, thought of you guys if any one can help.

Here is the problem:
I have Zend Framework standard file layout:

Project
  -application
     -controllers
     -views 
     -layouts
        -scripts
           -layouts.phtml
  -library
  -public
     -images
     -index.php

Now The problem is, I am referencing images in layouts.phtml by just images/logo.gif etc. and same in the controller views /images/arrow.gif

That works fine if the request is simple http://servername/project/controller

but if the request is more deep like http://servername/project/controller/index/page/2

the images break theirselves, they clearly can’t get the path, what I am noticing is, if I am on later request, the image path will be http://servername/project/controller/index/page/2/images/logo.gif which is not there, the image is in public/images

My understanding was (and I have googled it a bit as well) framework knows the default public and will route the images to public/images always. However, this is not working. Do I have to add some re-write rule or something?

Can anyone help please? I will be grateful!

Answer 1

Sometimes you should first ask the person sitting next to you!

Here is the solution:

<?=$this->baseUrl('images/logo.gif')?>

Edit after further investigation

For record and to help others: You can access images folder in public as you normally would in non Zend framework environment if you have configured your DocumentRoot properly. I only made a virtual directory in my httpdconf while if you do not create a VirtualHost and do not give DocumentRoot to it while your files are also not in default htdocs directory, expect this problem. See Create a Virtual Host heading in following URL:
http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/learning.quickstart.create-project.html and that will solve the problem!