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how to use relative paths for theme files


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davee

Community Member, 3 Posts

8 July 2008 at 9:29am

Edited: 08/07/2008 9:29am

hey guys,

this is very basic on linking to /theme files in templates.

given i am using my own theme and including css:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/themes/exampletheme/css/screen.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />

the thing is though, the engine generates links with slashes at the end by default, i.e.:
www.example.com/contact/

and this obviously wouldn't work as the ultimate http request to css is assembled as following:
www.example.com/contact/themes/exampletheme/css/screen.css
while i need the query to point to www.example.com/themes/exampletheme/css/screen.css

in other words this kind of relative path above ("themes/exampletheme/....") doesn't work unless i remove the end slash from the URL.

there seems to be a workaround by using $BaseHref for all media files but i am sure there is another clean way. just by looking at the code used at silverstripe.com ;)

i also don't want to hardcode anything as paths on devel server are different.

how do you guys deal with this? have i missed something in the confuguration .htaccess?

cheers,
davee

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Willr

Forum Moderator, 5523 Posts

8 July 2008 at 9:58am

Have you got the <% base_tag %> in your theme? This sets the <base> tag in your template to yoursite.com/ so every relative link on the page is taken from this.

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davee

Community Member, 3 Posts

8 July 2008 at 8:23pm

many thanks Will, this was helpful!