Got a php/css question....

I just installed the same Arcade hack that MajorGeeks here uses on my forum, but it uses a portal that uses the vBulletin navbar. When you hit the link from the front page it gives you a 404 because the index for the portal is outside of the forum directory. It works just fine from inside the forum... so how would I rewrite the tag where it works with both the portal and forum? I'm pretty sure it would have to be a conditional statement.. but I'm lost. I've been banging my head against this for the last two hours LOL

Any help or idea's you guys have would be great

 

You can do this with the $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] server variable. This gives you the current directory of the executing document.

PHP:

<?php

$inforum = "forum";
$inforumlink = "arcade.php";
$outforumlik = "/forum/arcade.php";

if ($patharray= explode($_SERVER['PATH_TRANSLATED'])) {
if ($patharray[0] == $inforum) {
echo "<a href='$inforumlink'>Arcade</a>";
}
else {
echo "<a href='$outforumlink'>Arcade</a>";
}
?>


But now thinking about it, thats COMPLETLEY un-nececary, because all you need to do is make it an absolute path!!!!! i.e. <a href="http://www.example.com/forum/arcade.php"> ! How Dumb of me!!

 

I have enough trouble with English, let alone PHP or SSC or DS9 or whatever.

Wow.

 

If anyone wants the completley useless code, here it is, and it works too.

PHP:


$inforum = "a";

$patharray = explode("/", $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);
if ($patharray['1'] == $inforum) {
echo "<a href='arcade.php'>Arcade</a>";
}
else {
echo "<a href='forum/arcade.php'>Arcade</a>";
}



$inforum is the name of the directory the forum is in.

It's completley pointless as you can do all of this in one line of HTML... in fact the only good reason there is to use it is if you happened to change domain names a lot. And even then you can use a small PHP call for the domain name to make an absolute path.

 

Blink.

OK, great... so I just insert that over the tag that's giving me trouble?

 

Hehe I got it working...

Took me a minute, but I was looking at how the other links were structured and basically copied the format. I changed this:

Code:

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="arcade.php?$session[sessionurl]">Arcade</a></td>

to this:

Code:

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/arcade.php?$session[sessionurl]">Arcade</a></td>

Next big thing is gonna be a module block on the front page showing the top ten scores

 

Ah, thats cool. Didn't realise that there was a $vboptions array obviously as I don't have the code!... that would have made things a whole lot easier