Re: [binarycloud-dev] Handling of resources/ in htdocs

[Jason H. <jc...@ey...>]

I too have wondered this.  I'd vote highly against the use of any
absolute paths unless they are preceed by a definable constant.


"Andreas Aderhold (Thyrell)" wrote:
> I'm a bit concerned how about handling the resources/ tree in the built
> system.
> 
> The following problem occurs:
> 
> I have a master template that is used in bcp defs in different levels e.g.:
> 
> www.foo.com/en/manage/news/
> www.foo.com/en/manage/users/newsletters/
> ..
> 
> The scripts and the master template there uses resources from our
> build/en/htdocs/resources directory. One way to accomplish a correct loading
> of the resources is to use absolute paths in the tags i.e.
> src=/en/resources/whatever/file.gif. But what if we want run the scripts a
> level deeper i.e. in www.foo.com/r2/en/manage/news. Problem.
> 
> The way I sove this currently is running a symlink to
> build/en/htdocs/resources in every htdocs subdir and using relative paths in
> the templates i.e src=resources/whatever/file.gif.