url_helper.php

Returns a site URL as defined by the App config. string '' is set, a protocol-relative link is returned.

Returns the base URL as defined by the App config. Base URLs are trimmed site URLs without the index page. string '' is set, a protocol-relative link is returned.

Returns the current full URL based on the Config\App settings and IncomingRequest. When returning URI, the query and fragment parts are preserved.

Returns the previous URL the current visitor was on. For security reasons we first check in a saved session variable, if it exists, and use that. If that's not available, however, we'll use a sanitized url from $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] which can be set by the user so is untrusted and not set by certain browsers/servers.

URL String Returns the path part (relative to baseURL) of the current URL

Index page Returns the "index_page" from your config file

Anchor Link Creates an anchor based on the local URL.

Anchor Link - Pop-up version Creates an anchor based on the local URL. The link opens a new window based on the attributes specified.

Mailto Link

Encoded Mailto Link Create a spam-protected mailto link written in Javascript

Auto-linker Automatically links URL and Email addresses. Note: There's a bit of extra code here to deal with URLs or emails that end in a period. We'll strip these off and add them after the link.

Prep URL - Simply adds the http:// or https:// part if no scheme is included. Formerly used URI, but that does not play nicely with URIs missing the scheme.

Create URL Title Takes a "title" string as input and creates a human-friendly URL string with a "separator" string as the word separator.

Create URL Title that takes into account accented characters Takes a "title" string as input and creates a human-friendly URL string with a "separator" string as the word separator.

Get the full, absolute URL to a route name or controller method (with additional arguments) NOTE: This requires the controller/method to have a route defined in the routes Config file. The last parameter allows you to set the locale.

Determines if current url path contains the given path. It may contain a wildcard (*) which will allow any valid character. Example: if (url_is('admin*')) ...