PHP Include and Different Folders

Alright, so here's the deal:

I'm working on a basic site using PHP Includes so I don't have to update each page when making design changes. Well, It was all working fine until I decided to use various folders. For example, what used to be tools.php is now /tools/index.php. But, when using PHP include in the new /tools/index.php, I get problems since it looks for the include files (header.php, head.php, and footer.php) in /tools/.

I tried using this:
<?php include($DOCUMENT_ROOT . 'head.php'); ?>

But it didn't work. Then I tried this:
<?php include($DOCUMENT_ROOT . '/home/daniel59/public_html/head.php'); ?>

Is there anyway of defining Document Root? But, anyways, I get no error messages. The problem is that head.php links to style.css, but, when I view the source for /tools/index.php, it looks for style.css in /tools/style.css. The file doesn't exist, of course, since style.css is located in /home/daniel59/public_html/style.css

Ahhh, i'm confused

 

echo $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];

 

that's right. The problem is that you have relied on register globals, which are turned off in your enviroment (which is a good things)

to find out why it wasn't working, just google register globals

 

Thanks. That worked for setting the home directory, but how do I fix the CSS problem?

My CSS file (/style.css) has lines like:

html {
background: url(/img/bg.jpg) repeat;
}

The CSS file won't load since it is in head, and head is set to look for it at:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css" />

So, /tools/index.php is looking for the file tools/style.css, which doesn't exist.

How can i fix that?

 

if its <link> try to follow your folder organization based on where it is <link>

just use ../img/bg.jpg if going up one level
and w/o ../ if under this folder...

anyways its css just try to follow your folder organization.

 

That works, but is there a better way of doing this? Like, a way of getting head.php, header.php, and footer.php to automatically reset the paths to the root?


EDIT: Just found out what I had to do. I had to put a slash in the paths. So, for example, in head.php, I had to change this:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css" />

to this:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css" type="text/css" />

and it works. Thanks to everyone

 

you mean dynamic css? just one css file but is still compatible with other pages..
just put your css code into a php file
with a <style></style>
just insert a php variable inside it

ie.
#container .folder {
background: url(<?=$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']...?>/folder/image.jpg);
}

 

You might have missed my edit. Take a look above, I figured it out. Thanks!