I am using following in my .htaccess file
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^shopping-bag/?$ shoppingbag.php [L,QSA]
This changes the url
to
www.domain.com/foldername/shopping-bag/
All my content is placed in
/www/foldername/
I fixed all the css and js files by declaring a global variable with value http://www.domain.com/foldername/ and place this variable before the path of css and js files. Since file_exists won't work on a URL I tried doing the following
../uploads/image.jpg
The actual path of the image file is
/www/foldername/uploads/image.jpg
I tried doing
var_dump(../uploads/image.jpg)
on
but didn't work. And I don't want to use <base href="">
Unless you've changed PHP's current working directory with something like chdir( $someDir ), all file system functions should basically behave relative to the current script's directory.
In your case file_exists( 'uploads/image.jpg' ) or file_exists( './uploads/image.jpg' ) (note the single dot, meaning current directory) should therefore return true, if the file actually exists in the location you said it exists.
Note that <base href=""> is irrelevant to the PHP script, because PHP is a server-side language, while <base> is a client-side HTML element.
To get a better understanding of the distinction between server-side and client-side (programming), have a look at this answer, for instance.
Furthermore, unless you meant to demonstrate something different, var_dump(../uploads/image.jpg) will not output anything meaningful. You can't use var_dump() like that, but perhaps you were already aware of this.