Re: creating absolute links (including site)

simply with an include specifying a remote URL; of course the web server
should be set to allow that

cheers
Lorenzo

euromark wrote:
> sure
> that would be a scenario where you'd use it
>
> how do you include a foreign page via php?
> usually this is not permitted from the file system / php
>
> or do you mean like an iframe / widget?
>
>
>
> On 25 Jan., 17:23, Lorenzo Bettini <bett...@dsi.unifi.it> wrote:
>> yes, exactly only for some urls: say that a page with urls is thought to
>> be php included on another external site, then the links in the included
>> page need to be absolute otherwise they would refer to the including
>> site and they would be dead links.
>>
>> cheers
>> Lorenzo
>>
>>
>>
>> euromark wrote:
>>> exactly
>>> but what is the point of creating all urls full?
>>> usually you only do that with urls that are sent in emails or pointed
>>> out to bookmark on the website...
>>> all other links can stay relative to root...
>>> i didnt understand you right away
>>> i thought you needed to do that only for some urls, not for all!
>>> On 25 Jan., 12:57, Lorenzo Bettini <bett...@dsi.unifi.it> wrote:
>>>> That's exactly what I meant, and I think it was John's point when he
>>>> answered my very first question.
>>>> So if I use link together with url (and true of course) everything
>>>> should work out fine, that's what you mean right? Even for non root
>>>> sites, right?
>>>> cheers
>>>> Lorenzo
>>>> euromark wrote:
>>>>> oh yes
>>>>> thats of course a possiblity too
>>>>> using "true" as second param of Html->url()
>>>>> this way you have already "http://.." which doesnt break Html->link()
>>>>> sry - you're right
>>>>> just dont forget the "true" :) than everything's fine
>>>>> On 24 Jan., 17:06, Lorenzo Bettini <bett...@dsi.unifi.it> wrote:
>>>>>> I'm already using link in connection with url (specifying true), but I
>>>>>> thought you had said that this might not work sometime...
>>>>>> and I don't want to set a constant for the host base, that's why I was
>>>>>> using url() with true, which seems to work fine...
>>>>>> euromark wrote:
>>>>>>> try this:
>>>>>>> $this->Html->link(HTTP_BASE.$this->Html->url(array
>>>>>>> ('action'=>'...', ...)));
>>>>>>> (1.3 syntax)
>>>>>>> whereas HTTP_BASE should be yourhttp://domain.de
>>>>>>> i have this in my bootstrap:
>>>>>>> define('HTTP_HOST',env('HTTP_HOST'));
>>>>>>> define('HTTP_BASE','http://'.HTTP_HOST);
>>>>>>> On 24 Jan., 12:06, Lorenzo Bettini <bett...@dsi.unifi.it> wrote:
>>>>>>>> sorry if I come back on this issue, but this use of link method in the
>>>>>>>> html helper does not seem to be documented: the book reports this method
>>>>>>>> signature:
>>>>>>>> link(string $title, mixed $url = null, array $htmlAttributes = array(),
>>>>>>>> string $confirmMessage = false, boolean $escapeTitle = true)
>>>>>>>> euromark wrote:
>>>>>>>>> actually its even way easiert!
>>>>>>>>> $html->link($url, TRUE)
>>>>>>>>> does the trick
>>>>>>>>> the above solution from john might even be wrong in some cases
>>>>>>>>> (if you're not at the top level of your domain, it adds the folders to
>>>>>>>>> the webroot twice...)
>>>>>>>>> On 29 Dez., 12:00, Lorenzo Bettini <bett...@dsi.unifi.it> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Hey thanks, that's exactly what I needed!
>>>>>>>>>> I had searched for it in the HtmlHelper but I hadn't found it since it's
>>>>>>>>>> an inherited method :)
>>>>>>>>>> cheers
>>>>>>>>>> Lorenzo
>>>>>>>>>> John Andersen wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> Use the html helpers url method to create the full url for the html
>>>>>>>>>>> helpers link method, as:
>>>>>>>>>>> echo $html->link('TEST LINK', $html->url('/advances/forward', true));
>>>>>>>>>>> Enjoy,
>>>>>>>>>>> John
>>>>>>>>>>> On Dec 29, 11:07 am, Lorenzo Bettini <bett...@dsi.unifi.it> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi
>>>>>>>>>>>> with the Html and Form helper it's already easy to create absolute links
>>>>>>>>>>>> (starting from the root of the site), but I'd need to create links that
>>>>>>>>>>>> also include the address of the site (starting with http://).
>>>>>>>>>>>> This is needed since the output of the cakephp site should also be
>>>>>>>>>>>> included in other sites (with different addresses).
>>>>>>>>>>>> Is there an automatic way to do this? Or, I guess, I should set the
>>>>>>>>>>>> site name in some configuration file myself?
>>>>>>>>>>>> thanks in advance
>>>>>>>>>>>> Lorenzo
>>>>>> --
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