Base url for all images

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

I’m very new to Yii and programming in general, so go easy on me ;)

I want to specify where the image folder is in my controller so that I don’t have to put <?php echo Yii::app()->request->baseUrl; ?> in front of every img src="". Is there an easy way to do that?

2

You could set up a constant, such as


define('B', Yii::app()->request->baseUrl);

Then in your code you could use it like


echo CHtml::image(B . '/path/to/image.webp');
3

Hmm, I was hoping for something a little more DRY.

4

I thought you wanted an easy way :)

In which case, you could subclass CHtml, and override the function image (http://code.google.com/p/yii/source/browse/tags/1.1.7/framework/web/helpers/CHtml.php#383), modifying it so instead of just setting $htmlOptions[‘src’] = $src it sets it as:


$htmlOptions['src'] = Yii::app()->request->baseUrl . '/' . $src;
5

Easy way it is :)

Thanks!

6

Even easier would be do have this in your base Controller class:


	public $baseurl;


	public function beforeRender() {

		$this->baseurl = Yii::app()->request->baseUrl;

		return true;

	}

Then it will be available as $this->baseurl in your controller and views.

But, George’s solution is less typing. :)