Dynamic Site, directory help

[x_zero]

Hello everyone I'm new here. I am building a site with many pages and trying to make it as simple as possible to manage in the future. I have a separate header page which contains the navigation and a flash object, also the a separate footer page. I import these pages into my index.php page using the (php) include function.
(also new to php, just learning the basics)

Here is were the problem comes in I have a directory called fleet (limo site) which has pages of each limo. I can't include the header and footer because the header objects have a different path.

I know that having the direct path (http://www.etc..) would solve this problem or having all the path go back (../) to the root folder. However I can't use these solutions because its not going to work on my local testing server. I don't feel like uploading files to often (uploading speed isn't so fast).

If someone knows what I'm talking about please help and inform me of the solution, thanks in advanced.

[Harry]

Use the < base > html tag. It resets the path to a different directory level/location.

[x_zero]

Thank you PR Design, all respect.

Use the < base > html tag. It resets the path to a different directory level/location.