URI confusion - Is CodeIgniter trying too hard?

[eluser]MikeL85[/eluser]
Here’s a bit of a maybe silly question but… how do I reference a file outside of the CI project? Is that easy enough to do? I keep having a problem. I think CI is trying to be helpful here and that’s actually causing the problem.

This code;

Code:

href='".$growing_path."/".$child."'

Will produce something like this;

http://example.com/publications/level_on...evel_three

Which is almost correct. I just want to add a “/content” folder in there. But when I change it to;

Code:

href='content".$growing_path."/".$child."'

I get this;

http://example.com/mike/CodeIgniter_2.1....evel_three

And I don’t know why….

Is there a helper or something I should wrap my href in?

[eluser]TheFuzzy0ne[/eluser]
That has nothing to do with CI. Try using an absolute path, or try prefixing your URL with a '/'.

Code:

href="<?php echo "/content{$growing_path}/{$child}"; ?>"

or

href="<?php echo base_url("content{$growing_path}/{$child}"); ?>"