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Only absolute links? - El Forum - 08-02-2008
[eluser]Unknown[/eluser]
Is it worth the trouble trying to reverse the a/b/c/d/e type of paths with ../../../../, or is it better to just use the absolute links?
Only absolute links? - El Forum - 08-02-2008
[eluser]Yash[/eluser]
Explain with example
Only absolute links? - El Forum - 08-02-2008
[eluser]valarkin[/eluser]
Phristen:
It would matter on what you are trying to do. Can you give a specific example? I make use of both absolute and relative paths depending on the situation.
Only absolute links? - El Forum - 08-02-2008
[eluser]Gavin Blair[/eluser]
I always refer to directories with base_url(). For example,
Code:
<img src="<?= base_url() ?>images/sweeeeetpic.jpg">It is an absolute link, but not hard-coded. Sometimes you need to put index.php in there:
Code:
<img src="<?= base_url() ?>index.php/images/sweeeeetpic.jpg">Only absolute links? - El Forum - 08-02-2008
[eluser]Pascal Kriete[/eluser]
I'm with Gavin on this, only I prefer site_url ... It adds index.php automatically
.
Only absolute links? - El Forum - 08-02-2008
[eluser]Yash[/eluser]
Sometimes I've to use something like ../../ and not two famous functions.anyways using these is always a good approach.
@inparo
Can you check your PM.
Only absolute links? - El Forum - 08-02-2008
[eluser]Pascal Kriete[/eluser]
::checks PM ... looks around ... sees nothing new ... comes back confused::
:-)
Only absolute links? - El Forum - 08-02-2008
[eluser]Colin Williams[/eluser]
In my experience, hardcoding paths in ANY way is a bad practice, which is why all frameworks have some function to abstract paths. CI's is site_url(), and so that's what I recommend.
In the absence of any dynamic capabilities, I always go with non-domain specific absolute paths (like "/images/frog.jpg")
Only absolute links? - El Forum - 08-11-2008
[eluser]Tommy_DK[/eluser]
I am having the same problem. When I try the suggested approach I just get:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function base_url() in C:\wamp\www\CodeIgniter\system\application\views\layout\top.php on line 35
Any suggestion as what I have missed?
Only absolute links? - El Forum - 08-11-2008
[eluser]Pascal Kriete[/eluser]
You have to load the url helper to use the url functions (a good one to autoload
).