Laravel: Get base url

Question

Simple question, but the answer seems quite hard to come by. In Codeigniter, I could load the url helper and then simply do

echo base_url();

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Answer 1

By the way, if your route has a name like:

Route::match(['get', 'post'], 'specialWay/edit', 'SpecialwayController@edit')->name('admin.spway.edit');

You can use the route() function like this:

<form method="post" action="{{route('admin.spway.edit')}}" class="form form-horizontal" id="form-spway-edit">

Other useful functions:

$uri = $request->path();
$url = $request->url();
$url = $request->fullUrl();
asset()
app_path();
// ...

https://github.com/laravel/framework/blob/5.4/src/Illuminate/Foundation/helpers.php

Answer 2

Laravel < 5.2

echo url();

Laravel >= 5.2

echo url('/');

Hope this helps you

Answer 3

Check this -

<a href="{{url('/abc/xyz')}}">Go</a>

This is working for me and I hope it will work for you.

Answer 4

I also used the base_path() function and it worked for me.

Answer 5

To get it to work with non-pretty URLs I had to do:

asset('/');

Answer 6

I used this and it worked for me in Laravel 5.3.18:

<?php echo URL::to('resources/assets/css/yourcssfile.css') ?>

IMPORTANT NOTE: This will only work when you have already removed "public" from your URL. To do this, you may check out this helpful tutorial.