Laravel: Get base url

Question

Simple question, but the answer seems quite hard to come by. In Codeigniter, I could load the url helper and then simply do

echo base_url();

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Answer 1

You can use facades or helper function as per following.

echo URL::to('/');
echo url();

Laravel using Symfony Component for Request, Laravel internal logic as per following.

namespace Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation;
/**
* {@inheritdoc}
*/
protected function prepareBaseUrl()
{
    $baseUrl = $this->server->get('SCRIPT_NAME');

    if (false === strpos($this->server->get('REQUEST_URI'), $baseUrl)) {
        // assume mod_rewrite
        return rtrim(dirname($baseUrl), '/\\');
    }

    return $baseUrl;
}