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

In my applications, I keep a "baseUrl" in my application config and I assign that to registry on bootstrapping. Later I use the following View Helper to generate the URL:

Benefit: I can make any change on all the URLs in the view from one place.

Hope this helps.