Hi,

Serveral web sites have a menu and when you pass your mouse over a link, the
browser statusbar only shows the folder where is located the file link, not
the complete address including the file link.

i mean if you take web site : http://www.zend.com/en/
when you pass your mouse cursor over "Company" link, it displays only : "
http://www.zend.com/en/company" in the statusbar of your browser.
how is it possible whereas the link points to "company/index.htm" ?

thanks a lot,

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Alain
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PHP 5.2.4
C# 2005-2008

On Jan 5, 2008 10:23 PM, Alain Roger <raf.news@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Serveral web sites have a menu and when you pass your mouse over a link, the
> browser statusbar only shows the folder where is located the file link, not
> the complete address including the file link.
>
> i mean if you take web site : http://www.zend.com/en/
> when you pass your mouse cursor over "Company" link, it displays only : "
> http://www.zend.com/en/company" in the statusbar of your browser.
> how is it possible whereas the link points to "company/index.htm" ?

In that example the link takes you to http://www.zend.com/en/company/
- not http://www.zend.com/en/company/index.htm

index.htm is the default file it looks for based on apache config.

See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_dir.html for more info.
You can set it to whatever you like, but as a rule apache uses
index.html or index.htm or index.php and asp/asp.net uses default.asp
or default.aspx.

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ok, maybe i did not write my question well.
i already used it because i setup the DirectoryIndex to index.php,
index.html

my concern for now, how to have the same behavior on my local computer
(development computer) ?
my computer has IP 200.170.1.2 (for example)
so in my brower i type : 200.170.1.2/myWebSite

this load my firt index.php webpage to browser... if i pass my mouse cursor
over menu link "Company", it displays
http://200.170.1.2/myWebSite/200.170.1.2/company
which is not great :-(

here is the code i use :
print "<div class='MenuItem4'><a
href='".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']."/company'>Company</a></div>";

thanks for .

A.

On Jan 5, 2008 12:29 PM, chris smith <dmagick@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jan 5, 2008 10:23 PM, Alain Roger <raf.news@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Serveral web sites have a menu and when you pass your mouse over a link,
> the
> > browser statusbar only shows the folder where is located the file link,
> not
> > the complete address including the file link.
> >
> > i mean if you take web site : http://www.zend.com/en/
> > when you pass your mouse cursor over "Company" link, it displays only :
> "
> > http://www.zend.com/en/company" in the statusbar of your browser.
> > how is it possible whereas the link points to "company/index.htm" ?
>
> In that example the link takes you to http://www.zend.com/en/company/
> - not http://www.zend.com/en/company/index.htm
>
> index.htm is the default file it looks for based on apache config.
>
> See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_dir.html for more info.
> You can set it to whatever you like, but as a rule apache uses
> index.html or index.htm or index.php and asp/asp.net uses default.asp
> or default.aspx.
>
> --
> Postgresql & php tutorials
> http://www.designmagick.com/
>



--
Alain
------------------------------------
Windows XP SP2
PostgreSQL 8.2.4 / MS SQL server 2005
Apache 2.2.4
PHP 5.2.4
C# 2005-2008

On Jan 5, 2008 10:36 PM, Alain Roger <raf.news@gmail.com> wrote:
> ok, maybe i did not write my question well.
> i already used it because i setup the DirectoryIndex to index.php,
> index.html
>
> my concern for now, how to have the same behavior on my local computer
> (development computer) ?
> my computer has IP 200.170.1.2 (for example)
> so in my brower i type : 200.170.1.2/myWebSite
>
> this load my firt index.php webpage to browser... if i pass my mouse cursor
> over menu link "Company", it displays
> http://200.170.1.2/myWebSite/200.170.1.2/company
> which is not great :-(
>
> here is the code i use :
> print "<div class='MenuItem4'><a
> href='".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']."/company'>Company</a></div>";

In your case it's taking the existing url and tacking the rest on
which is not what you want.

If you print out $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] - it doesn't include the
http[s]:// at the start to make it a complete absolute url. It also
doesn't include your current directory (myWebSite) so even with
http:// at the start you'd end up with http://ip.address/company - not
what you want either.

You should probably have a variable or define for your application url
in your config file so you can:

print "<a href='" . APPLICATION_URL . "/company'>Company</a>";

It's much safer this way than relying on any $_SERVER variables (which
believe it or not are suspect to XSS attacks/vulnerabilities).

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Unless I misunderstand your question, this is normal behavior. The page
designer purposely enters the link in the simpler form:
http://www.zend.com/en/company
because the web server is configured to assume that index.htm is the
default page in that folder and correctly displays it.

Alain Roger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Serveral web sites have a menu and when you pass your mouse over a link, the
> browser statusbar only shows the folder where is located the file link, not
> the complete address including the file link.
>
> i mean if you take web site : http://www.zend.com/en/
> when you pass your mouse cursor over "Company" link, it displays only : "
> http://www.zend.com/en/company" in the statusbar of your browser.
> how is it possible whereas the link points to "company/index.htm" ?
>
> thanks a lot,
>

this is how i solved my issue :-)

On Jan 5, 2008 4:28 PM, jeffry s <paragasu@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Jan 5, 2008 7:36 PM, Alain Roger <raf.news@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > ok, maybe i did not write my question well.
> > i already used it because i setup the DirectoryIndex to index.php,
> > index.html
> >
> > my concern for now, how to have the same behavior on my local computer
> > (development computer) ?
> > my computer has IP 200.170.1.2 (for example)
> > so in my brower i type : 200.170.1.2/myWebSite
> >
> > this load my firt index.php webpage to browser... if i pass my mouse
> > cursor
> > over menu link "Company", it displays
> > http://200.170.1.2/myWebSite/200.170.1.2/company
> > which is not great :-(
> >
> > here is the code i use :
> > print "<div class='MenuItem4'><a
> > href='".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']."/company'>Company</a></div>";
> >
> > thanks for .
> >
> > A.
> >
> > On Jan 5, 2008 12:29 PM, chris smith <dmagick@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Jan 5, 2008 10:23 PM, Alain Roger <raf.news@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Serveral web sites have a menu and when you pass your mouse over a
> > link,
> > > the
> > > > browser statusbar only shows the folder where is located the file
> > link,
> > > not
> > > > the complete address including the file link.
> > > >
> > > > i mean if you take web site : http://www.zend.com/en/
> > > > when you pass your mouse cursor over "Company" link, it displays
> > only :
> > > "
> > > > http://www.zend.com/en/company" in the statusbar of your browser.
> > > > how is it possible whereas the link points to "company/index.htm" ?
> > >
> > > In that example the link takes you to http://www.zend.com/en/company/
> > > - not http://www.zend.com/en/company/index.htm
> > >
> > > index.htm is the default file it looks for based on apache config.
> > >
> > > See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_dir.html for more info.
> > > You can set it to whatever you like, but as a rule apache uses
> > > index.html or index.htm or index.php and asp/asp.net uses default.asp
> > > or default.aspx.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Postgresql & php tutorials
> > > http://www.designmagick.com/
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Alain
> > ------------------------------------
> > Windows XP SP2
> > PostgreSQL 8.2.4 / MS SQL server 2005
> > Apache 2.2.4
> > PHP 5.2.4
> > C# 2005-2008
> >
>
> omg.. i don't know someone will care enough to ask something like this..
> if you want the status bar to display the index.htm or index.php
> simply write the index.php or index.html in the link
>
> for example instead of this
>
> print "<div class='MenuItem4'><a
> href='".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME' ]."/company'>Company</a></div>";
>
> do it like this
>
> print "<div class='MenuItem4'><a
> href='".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']."/company/index.htm'>Company</a></div>";
>
> the taskbar will display the whole link in href when you point the mouse
> over that link,.
>
>


--
Alain
------------------------------------
Windows XP SP2
PostgreSQL 8.2.4 / MS SQL server 2005
Apache 2.2.4
PHP 5.2.4
C# 2005-2008