PHP include navbar - multiple directories

[mattbtay]

what is the best practice to link to a page within the site from 2 different levels of directory

ex.

site.com/path/to/file/1.html

and

site.com/path/to/listing.html

both of those need to have a link to "site.com/index.html" I am using an navbar which is being included via php so i have to have the same link for the whole site. is my only option to use the full url for the page?

http://www.site.com/index.hml ?

 

[bcee]

Just use the full URL, I think it would be better for SEO anyhow.

But to solve your problem I've had to do this before. What I ended up doing was using a PHP variable that stores the current page ($_SESSION['page'] = 'home' BEFORE the include) and you can echo the links you want based on that page in your header PHP.

 

[web_design]

you may have some issues using the full path as someservers wont allow it. that said its the easiest way of doing what you want if yourserver supports it