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PHP

Paul Yorde
Paul Yorde
10,497 Points
Posted by Paul Yorde
Paul Yorde
10,497 Points

Web Addresses: clean URL's

Hi, I have a link that seems squirally. shirts.php in the breadcrumb navigation of the shirts detail page. All of the other files and links are responding correctly, but when this link is clicked, it seems to be throwing the product ID into the web address, i.e. – this error message:

"The requested URL /shirts_four_mike/shirts/102/shirts/ was not found on this server." Code for the link:

<a href="<?php BASE_URL; ?>shirts/">

on the shirt details page (shirt-buy) in this case

NOTE: I am usign a sub-directory as the parent folder as opposed to htdocs.

config.php if it helps:

define("BASE_URL", "/shirts_four_mike/");
define("ROOT_PATH",$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . "/shirts_four_mike/");

Any ideas as to why this is happening?

Thanks, Paul

1 Answer

Paul Graham
Paul Graham
1,396 Points

You probably need to echo that BASE_URL variable.

Paul Yorde
Paul Yorde
10,497 Points
Paul Yorde
Paul Yorde
10,497 Points

Yes, that was it! I suspected that, but thought that it wouldn't need echoed since it was happening via a URL request. I guess I thought the href or something would just return the value of the CONSTANT.