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

I found an other way to just get the base url to to display the value of environment variable APP_URL

env('APP_URL')

which will display the base url like http://domains_your//yours_website. beware it assumes that you had set the environment variable in .env file (that is present in the root folder).