Question

Ooookay.

So, I have this annoying issue. I’m calling a css file within an php/html doc and I’m getting strange results – probably because I’m failing to understand something.

I’ve defined a few constants in my application (constants.php):

define("ROOT", dirname(dirname(__FILE__)));
define("DS", DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR);
define("RESOURCES", ROOT . DS . "resources" . DS);
define("CSS", RESOURCES . "css" . DS );

My folder structure looks something like:
Localhost (development root folder. FYI: it is C:\Users\Kyle\SkyDrive\www)
 Framework
   library (folder)
    constants.php (file)
   resources (folder)
    CSS (folder)
     wuxia-blue.css
   views (folder)
    Booking (folder)
     dashboard.php (file)

Now, in my dashboard.php file I’m linking the css folder as follows:

<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href="">

Now comes the issue: when I use href=”/framework/resources/css/wuxia-blue.css”, the css pulls perfectly fine and all looks great. Only problem is, I want to pull it with something like:

href="<?php echo(CSS); ?>wuxia-blue.css"

That resolves to C:\Users\Kyle\SkyDrive\www\Framework\resources\css\wuxia-blue.css which is the correct path to the resource but when I use it, no CSS pulls through on the page.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

This is because your CSS constant contains the root.

You could just str_replace this though

href="<?php echo(str_replace(ROOT,"",CSS)); ?>wuxia-blue.css"