CakePHP Absolute URLs

Question

I want to use the $html->image(...) helper function in CakePHP to display images, but I need to create an img tag using an absolute rather than a relative URL (the resulting HTML code will be downloaded and emailed to the News Company mailing list). Is it possible?

This is not documented, but I notice from the source code that the image function can take an array as its first argument. I don’t quite understand how to do this, but a naive attempt to do it this way creates image URLs relative to the current page, and not in the webroot/img folder.

Answer 1

In CakePHP 1.x method:

 $this->Html->image($this->Html->url('/path_to_image/image.png',true)); 

In CakePHP 2.x, the method:

 $this->Html->image('/path_to_image/image.png', array('fullBase' => true)); 

Answer 2

The correct way to do this in CakePHP 2.x:

 <?php echo $this->Html->image("logo.png", array('fullBase' => true)); 

Code directly from the cookbook: http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/core-libraries/helpers/html.html

Answer 3

$html->image('http://example.com/path_to_image/image.png'); gotta do the trick.

Answer 4

You should be able to use:

 $html->image('http://[domain]/[path]/[image]') 

Answer 5

With the image of the link: -

 <?php echo $this->Html->link($this->Html->image('logo.png',array('alt'=>'Logo')),'/', array('fullBase'=>true)); ?> 

Display only images: -

 <?php echo $this->Html->image('logo.png',array('alt'=>'Logo')),'/', array('fullBase'=>true); ?> 

Answer 6

<img src = "http://example.com/path_to_image/image.png" alt = "/">

sometimes it’s better to keep the easiest way