Question

I have a script containing PHP and JavaScript files.
All these files are in the root folder /myfolder.

Let’s say the script I have to include on my website is /myfolder/script.js , the problem is that in script.js I have ajax calls to ../myfolder/ajax.php, which, because the path will be relative to the page the script is included won’t work if I had something like this on the page /a/b/page.php:

<script src="../../myfolder/script.js><script> because this will call the ajax method from ../myfolder/ajax.php as stated in the AJAX call, which in this case is /a/myfolder/ajax.php.

How can I rewrite the AJAX call URL so that it will always point to the right file regardless where the script.js is included?

ROOT
|---myfolder
    |--script.js
    |--ajax.php
|--page1.php
|--subfolder
   |--page2.php
   |--subfolder
      |--page3.php

Answer 1

/**
 * returns the current context path,
 * ex: http://localhost:8080/MyApp/Controller returns /MyApp/
 * ex: http://localhost:8080/MyApp returns /MyApp/
 * ex: https://www.example.co.za/ returns /
 */
function getContextPath() {
    var ctx = window.location.pathname,
        path = '/' !== ctx ? ctx.substring(0, ctx.indexOf('/', 1) + 1) : ctx;
    return path + (/\/$/.test(path) ? '' : '/');
}

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on a URL like http://www.example.com/ajax:

getContextPath() + 'myfolder/ajax.php'

will return /ajax/myfolder/ajax.php

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similarly on a URL like http://www.example.com/:

getContextPath() + 'myfolder/ajax.php'

will return /myfolder/ajax.php

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lastly on a URL like http://www.example.com/myfolder/a/b/c/d/e/f/g/:

getContextPath() + 'myfolder/ajax.php'

will return /myfolder/ajax.php