web site directory structure borks ul2menu

[rileym3]

Hello!
I've been working on a customized web site framework in PHP/javascript/CSS, and I'm having trouble due to the fact that I'm insistng on a specific directory structure:

/ - web site root
/includes - includes directory
/includes/images - images directory: all web site images are stored here
/includes/scripts - directory containing javascripts
/includes/styles - stylesheet directory

The /includes/styles directory has various stylesheets (one for web, one for printing, etc.) It also has a ul2menu.css file for the main menu.

The /includes/scripts directory has a file called ul2menu.js which controls the main menu.


I also have the follwing directories which is where I'm having trouble calling the images, scripts, and stylesheets correctly:

/Articles - Contains articles for my customers to view
/Products - Contains the product pages
/Services - Contains services pages.
/Support - contains support pages

when I use a php in the root dir, which calls the ul2menu JS and CSS, it works fine, but a file in the /Articles directory, for example, will fail to call the CSS and JS correctly. How can I setup PHP to call the files under includes regardless of what directory I'm in? I've tried using relative and full URLs with no luck, and I've tried calling it as a path o the server as well.

The customized ul2menu is called by /includes/Header.inc.php, which calls scripts/ul2menu.js and styles/ul2menu.css correctly from any PHP file in the root directory, but fails to call them correctly when in /Articles, /Support, etc. I know how to create variables in PHP and call them, but it's just not working for me. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!
Riley

[ukgeoff]

Some things might be instalation dependant and also whether you are on a Unix or Windows server but in general;

../ takes you back up a directory so -

given your structure, for a file in /Articles to call a file in /inludes/images, for example, the call in the file in /Articles will need to be;

../includes/images/filename