Jordan,
Not true. If you make your PHP includes look like this:
include("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/includes/header.inc");
Then you can make your image calls with an absolute URL like this:
<img src="/images/image.gif" width="10" height="10" border="0">
Also, it's not a good idea to use the .inc extension unless you've
associated it with PHP. The reason is if I type the URL directly to
/includes/header.inc I will get the source code for that file in text
format. However, if you named it header.inc.php it will still follow an
intelligent naming convention, but will still get interpreted if someone
tries to access it directly. This will most likely result in an error or
will just display a blank page depending on what your header file does.
Either way it doesn't open your source code up to anonymous users. This is
why Martin is suggesting you to store your include files outside of the root
web directory so people can't directly access your source code. So either do
what I've suggested or do what Martin suggested, but it is definitely worth
the effort to do one of the two.
--Toby
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From: "Jordan Elver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ben Cairns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: [PHP] Site Structure
> Hi,
> Thanks for the reply. I can do that but then the images will not be in the
> correct location?
>
> Jordan
>
> On Monday 23 April 2001 15:58, you wrote:
> > give the include() function a complete path:
> >
> > include '/apache/htdocs/include/yourfile.inc.php';
> >
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