Help with bad website code

**Keys767** · #1 11th Mar 2008, 11:47

Hi,
I'm building a website and it was wrking fine, until i added a new page and changed some paths - like ../../css/styles.css to http://www.blah.com/css/styles.css.

It uses includes to include the header.php file and the footer.php file on each page. This error occurs in the header.

All the paths and urls seem correct, but when i view my page online, this:
[html]<table class="maintable" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td class="header" style="width: 516px">
<img src="http://www.blah.com/home/images/banner.jpg" class="banner" alt="Bleh" /></td>
<td class="header">
<img src="http://www.blah.com/home/images/bannerend.jpg" width="44" height="170" alt="End" align="right" /></td>
</tr>
</table>
[/html]turns into this in the source:
[html]<table class="maintable" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td class="header" style="width: 516px">
</td>
<td class="header">
</td>
</tr>
</table>[/html]
Anyone know what's going on? Thanks.

Also, I can post up any other bits of the code if anyone needs to see it to find the problem.

**serverguy** · #2 11th Mar 2008, 14:43

It seems to be ignoring out the line including the images.

Could be something to do with the full URLs. Do you get the same problem when they are relative?

**Keys767** · #3 12th Mar 2008, 02:11

I've just tried it on a college computer using IE and it works. I'm just going to check it at home later on and see if it works there too. God knows what happened there...

**spot** · #4 12th Mar 2008, 09:06

I've never seen anyone use an http address to point to a style sheet - it's meant to be a file on a directory on a server's local drive. Have you a reason for doing it? Are you sure it's valid? I'd be very surprised if it were. I'm quite sure it means that there's no way of relative addressing any other directory from it which is what you're trying to do.

**spot** · #5 12th Mar 2008, 09:11

Or maybe not. That was my first reaction but it may well be wrong and I'm just used to how I've done things. It's still an odd decision in my opinion.

**serverguy** · #6 12th Mar 2008, 11:47

Quote:

Originally Posted by spot

I've never seen anyone use an http address to point to a style sheet - it's meant to be a file on a directory on a server's local drive. Have you a reason for doing it? Are you sure it's valid? I'd be very surprised if it were. I'm quite sure it means that there's no way of relative addressing any other directory from it which is what you're trying to do.

Nope theres nothing wrong with that at all. You can stick the style sheet anywhere on the planet, as long as the browser has access to it.

Just like you can with a image or anything else you want to include.

**spot** · #7 12th Mar 2008, 16:04

So how on earth does it pick up the includes? Surely includes have to be, relative or absolute, on the same networked drive system as the php engine.

**Keys767** · #8 13th Mar 2008, 02:46

what i don't understand is how it works fine on computers at my college but not at home (in both firefox and ie). Suggests to me that it must be something to do with my computer. But i just cant figure out what.

**spot** · #9 13th Mar 2008, 03:42

Go on, there's lots of differences. IIS or Apache, linux or MS, even just the pathnames to the www htdocs folder. I'm not sure we can just guess, debugging this involves looking at the raw code you're storing. If we had the entire header include file, for example, we could at least check it's syntax-clean.

How about the include_path in php.ini is different?

**spot** · #10 13th Mar 2008, 03:46

Hang on, that's me maybe misreading things again. So you mean you're getting the difference when it's on two differently-located servers, or when it's on two differently-located browsers? I'd assumed two different servers but that's possibly mistaken. There are so many ways of interpreting what you've said so far.