Topic awaiting preservation: Directory mapping problem in PHP

directory structure examples:

<begin examples>
root/index.php

and

root/scripts/index.txt

and

root/ads/index.php

<end example>

If I link to the index.txt from the index.php in the root it is as follows (source="scripts/index.txt")
but if I am working in "ads/index.php" and want to link to "root/scripts/index.txt" by using
(source="../scripts/index.txt") I get an error...why is this?

Dunno, but why not use "/scripts/index.txt" or even "$DOCUMENT_ROOT/scripts/index.txt"

/scripts/index.txt gave me an error...I'll try the environment variable you suggested....didn't know I could use that....Thanks...hope it works!!!

Well, $DOCUMENT_ROOT would work if you're trying to INCLUDE it. If you're just linking to it, then /scripts/index.txt should work if the file actually exists.

What error are you getting?

it's one of those "if" statements, like if it can't find it "die"

(ok, this might be really stupid, but
/index.php
/ads/index.php
but
/scripts/index.txt

could that be your problem? )

ahhh ha! I found out what the problem was...the mapping was fine. I had a permissions problem on the Apache server. I was using WS_FTP and when I'd CHMOD the txt files it displayed the correct permissions however those permissions were not what the permissions really were as WS_FTP shows what the last setting that u used when you CHMODed last instead of actually querying the file for the current permissions. I refreshed and used 'dirinfo' to determine that the permissions were set wrong and then corrected that and batta bing batta boom everything was copesetic!!!

Thanks all for the suggestions!!!



[This message has been edited by Boudga (edited 08-16-2002).]