Question

I have got that link:

<a href="index.php">Political Science</a>

I put it dynamically with php code “include” as part of a header.. now, it doesnt work, that is because it depends where I am in the website directory.. sometimes I am two folders inside sometimes, I am at the root. .. henceforth, the value of the href attribute is incorrect when I am not in the root but in some folder.. it should be ../index.php..

How can I adapt that attribute to be ../index.php or index.php depending where I navigate in my site?

Answer 1

In situations like this, I usually assign an absolute path to the href attributes. I keep the address of my website in a variable and concatinate the website address with the relative location of the file (relative to the physical root of the website) like this:

$domain      = "http://www.google.com/";
$absoluteURL = $domain . "folderx/foldery/zzz.html"

<a href=<?php echo $absoluteURL; ?>">Political Science</a>

and this never fails