Question

Case: you’re developing a site with Zend Framework and need relative links to the folder the webapp is deployed in. I.e. mysite.com/folder online and localhost:8080 under development.

The following works nice in controllers regardless of deployed location:

$this->_helper->redirector->gotoSimple($action, $controller, $module, $params); 

And the following inside a viewscript, ie. index.phtml:

<a href='<?php echo $this->url(array('controller'=>'index', 'action' => 'index'), null, true); ?>'> 

But how do I get the correct basepath when linking to images or stylesheets? (in a layout.phtml file, for example):

<img src='<?php echo WHAT_TO_TYPE_HERE; ?>images/logo.png' /> 

and

$this->headLink()->appendStylesheet( WHAT_TO_TYPE_HERE . 'css/default.css'); 

WHAT_TO_TYPE_HERE should be replaced with something that gives

<img src='/folder/images/logo.png />` on mysite.com and `<img src='/images/logo.png /> 

on localhost

Answer 1

You can get the base url from the Front Controller Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance()->getBaseUrl();. I wrap that in a view helper

class My_View_Helper_BaseUrl  {        /**      *  Get base url      *       * @return string      */     public function baseUrl()     {         return rtrim(Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance()->getBaseUrl(),'/');     }  } 

So in the html markup you have something like <img src='<?php echo $this->baseUrl();?>/images/logo.png'/> The trailing slash is stripped out in the helper so that when the application isn’t run in a sub folder (baseUrl is blank in that case) the path will still work.