How can I find an application's base url?

Question

I\'d like to find the base url of my application, so I can automatically reference other files in my application tree...

So given a file config.php in the base of my

Answer 1

You can find the base url with the folowing code:

define('SITE_BASE_PATH','http://'.preg_replace('/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/i','',$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']).'/'.str_replace('\\','/',substr(dirname(__FILE__),strlen($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']))).'/');

Short and best.