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<![CDATA[Magextend Blog]]> http://www.magextend.com/blog/ Sat, 19 May 2012 14:49:12 +0000 Zend_Feed http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss <![CDATA[Magento URLs & Paths]]> http://www.magextend.com/blog/paths/ #getbasedir { font-family:"Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; width:100%; border-collapse:collapse; } #getbasedir td, #getbasedir th { border:1px solid #98bf21; padding:3px 7px 2px 7px; } #getbasedir th { text-align:left; background-color:#A7C942; color:#fff; } #getbasedir tr.alt td { color:#000; background-color:#EAF2D3; } .blog-post-code{ border : 1px solid grey; background-color: #EBEBEB; font-family:"Courier New", Times, serif; } You sometimes need to retrieve Magento url or paths like the website base URL or the edia directory path on the server. Magento brings us 2 functions allowing to do that easily.

For web adresses you need to use Mage::getBaseUrl() with the link type in parameter. The types are described in the model Mage_Core_Model_Store :

const URL_TYPE_LINK = 'link';
const URL_TYPE_DIRECT_LINK = 'direct_link';
const URL_TYPE_WEB = 'web';
const URL_TYPE_SKIN = 'skin';
const URL_TYPE_JS = 'js';
const URL_TYPE_MEDIA = 'media';

So we have :

Mage::getBaseUrl(Mage_Core_Model_Store::URL_TYPE_LINK)

http://www.domain.com/index.php/

Mage::getBaseUrl(Mage_Core_Model_Store::URL_TYPE_WEB)

http://www.domain.com/

Mage::getBaseUrl(Mage_Core_Model_Store::URL_TYPE_SKIN)

http://www.domain.com/skin/

Mage::getBaseUrl(Mage_Core_Model_Store::URL_TYPE_JS )

http://www.domain.com/js/

Mage::getBaseUrl(Mage_Core_Model_Store::URL_TYPE_MEDIA)

http://www.domain.com/media/

To get a directory path you need to use Mage:::getBaseDir() with the directory code in parameter. The following table show all the available codes:

Code	Call	Value
base	Mage::getBaseDir() Mage::getBaseDir('base')	/var/www/magento/
app	Mage::getBaseDir('app')	/var/www/magento/app/
code	Mage::getBaseDir('code')	/var/www/magento/app/code
design	Mage::getBaseDir('design')	/var/www/magento/app/design/
etc	Mage::getBaseDir('etc')	/var/www/magento/app/etc
lib	Mage::getBaseDir('lib')	/var/www/magento/lib
locale	Mage::getBaseDir('locale')	/var/www/magento/app/locale
media	Mage::getBaseDir('media')	/var/www/magento/media/
skin	Mage::getBaseDir('skin')	/var/www/magento/skin/
var	Mage::getBaseDir('var')	/var/www/magento/var/
tmp	Mage::getBaseDir('tmp')	/var/www/magento/var/tmp
cache	Mage::getBaseDir('cache')	/var/www/magento/var/cache
log	Mage::getBaseDir('log')	/var/www/magento/var/log
session	Mage::getBaseDir('session')	/var/www/magento/var/session
upload	Mage::getBaseDir('upload')	/var/www/magento/media/upload
export	Mage::getBaseDir('export')	/var/www/magento/var/export

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