baseUrl(‘blah’) ?>

Assuming you’ve set the baseUrl up in your config file of course –

resources.frontController.baseUrl = “http://example.com:7000/”

They may not work in the way that you want them to work – returning the whole URL with the domain name. With this, I agree. But again, they shouldn’t. An application should be domain independent.

Best of luck in finding a component suitable for you. And,.after you do, perhaps you’ll find the time to post it here, so it will be helpful to others…

anyway the helpers (neither yours or the zend one) seems to work, this can be helpfull for other people looking for it.

thanks again

My helper was posted here on the 31st of January 2009, so it’s fairly old. It simply returns the base url as it’s encapsulated in the FrontController object.

You must understand that the front controller doesn’t keep any record about the domain your site is running on. For instance, my baseUrl() will return the path part of the url (see this page for details).

The domain the application is running at a given time shouldn’t be relevant to the application itself. But if really want your domain to be returned by the baseUrl() helper, you have to parse the data from the $_SERVER superglobal. You can find an useful example here.

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I ask this question here because Your post almost recent.

Your Helper too doesn’t work if I don’t use ‘/beta’ subdir (see belowe)
the Lensselink’s one work in my case. (but not as I like)

My bootstrap:

$request = new Zend_Controller_Request_Http();
$request->setBaseUrl( $request->getBaseUrl().’/'); // dispatch($request);

My helper:

function baseUrl($file = null)
{
$base_url = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance()->getBaseUrl();
//$base_url = substr($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], 0, -9);

if (null !== $file) $file = ltrim($file, ‘/\\’);

return $base_url . $file;
}

My View calls to the helper:

<a href="baseUrl(); ? rel="nofollow">” title=”Home”>

<a href="baseUrl(’page’); ? rel="nofollow">” title=”a page”>a page

<link href="baseUrl(’style.css’); ?>” />

looking at my helper you see two vars: $base_url and $file.
only $file is returned, $base_url return always empty if I use ‘/’ in setBaseUrl().

If I try ‘/subdir’ in setBaseUrl() it works!

If I use ‘/’ the output is:
on a page like http://localhost/resource

baseUrl(); // render '' that become the link 'http://localhost/resource'
baseUrl('page'); // render 'page' that become the link http://localhost/page
baseUrl('style.css'); // render style.css

on a page like http://localhost/resource/

baseUrl(); // render '' that become the link 'http://localhost/resource/'
baseUrl('page'); // render 'page' that become the link 'http://localhost/resource/page'
baseUrl('style.css'); // render style.css

the Lensselink’s one render as belowe:

baseUrl(); // render '/' that become the link 'http://localhost/'
baseUrl('page'); // render '/page' that become the link 'http://localhost/page'
baseUrl('style.css'); // render /style.css

no one render ‘http://localhost/‘ as I wish

but it doesn’t work, why?

    function baseUrl()
    {
        $s = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
        $base_url = substr($s, 0, -(strlen($s) - strpos($s, 'index.php')));
        return $base_url;
    }

This will find the first occurrence of the ‘index.php’ and remove everything after it leaving the baseurl only.

Regards!