Inculde a static version of a dynamic php page

[scifind]

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Hi (not exactly an affiliate thread I know)
I am running OS COmmerce and an a bit miffed at the fact that the install from my host will only install to a sub folder.
Thus my OSCommerce store has the URL
www.shopscifi.co.uk/catalog
I want www.shopscifi.co.uk/index.php to be a copy of www.shopscifi.co.uk/catalog/index.php
I have tried include() but it tries to include a multitude of functions that have reletive paths specified.

Help please

(would there be any interest from peeps if i set up an affili prog with this store?)

[Rich]

The quick and dirty way of doing it would be to make index.php simply

<?
readfile('http://www.shopscifi.co.uk/catalog/index.php');
?>

though you would have to check all the paths on the catalog/index.php page include /catalog/ otherwise the images or links won't work correctly.

The other option would be to make index.php

<?
header('location: http://www.shopscifi.co.uk/catalog/index.php');
?>

which would redirect the user to the location page. That will save you from any path issues and I don't think having catalog in the url is really a big issue.

[Stress Head]

scifind, if I understand correctly all you need to do is use the FTP move function to move everything up a directory.

You will the need to ammend the config.php file in both the catalog and admin part of the site (back them both up first).

At present the path in the config.php file will point to catalog and catalog/admin. If you remove the directory catalog from the path then you should be sorted.

PM me if you need any help.

[scifind]

Cheers - the readfile worked.

I will do it this way for three reasons.
1) I am lazy and writing 1 line of code is easier than moving the files and changing the config file
2) I have some pages in google already
3)I might put a pretty custom frontpage at some time.

[Retail-Therapy]

<base href="'http://www.shopscifi.co.uk/catalog/">


<?
$handle =  file_get_contents ("http://www.shopscifi.co.uk/catalog/index.php");

echo $handle;
?>

gets around all the image and other path issues