How to get base url in CodeIgniter 2.*

Question

In config.php

$config[\'base_url\'] = \'http://localhost/codeigniter/\';

In View

Answer 1

You need to add url helper in config/autoload

$autoload['helper'] = array('form', 'url', 'file', 'html'); <-- Like This

Then you can use base_url or any kind of url.