Best practice to create absolute URLs with Zend framework?

Question

Is there a best practice for creating absolute URLs using the Zend framework? I wonder if there is some helper or if this would just be concatenating the scheme, host, etc. from

Answer 1

Without mvc

echo $this->serverUrl() . $this->baseUrl('cass/base.css');

or with mvc

echo  $this->serverUrl() . $this->url(array('controller'=>'index','action'=>'index'),null,true);