Zend - changing image URL path for deployment

Question

The title might be confusing as I'm not sure myself on how to explain this. I'm sure its a pretty simple solution.

I'm moving all my static images,css,js to S3 - so now they can be accessed via

Egs:

http://files.xyz.com/images/logo.gif
http://files.xyz.com/images/submit_button.gif
http://files.xyz.com/style/style.css
http://files.xyz.com/js/jquery.js

files.xyz.com is a CNAME pointing to files.xyz.com.s3.amazonaws.com

Now in my Zend layout and views - I'm accessing these with the full URL egs

<img src="http://files.xyz.com/images/logo.gif"/>

My concern is when I'm testing on localhost - I dont want the data to be fetched from S3 but from my local hard disk

So I want to do something like this. In my application.ini - I should be able to specify

resources.frontController.imageUrl = http://localhost

And when I'm deploying - simply change that to

resources.frontController.imageUrl = http://files.xyz.com

And access it in the view like
<img src="<?php echo $this->imageUrl;?>/images/logo.gif"/>

What is the best approach to handling this Thanks

Answer 1

Create a view helper

public function imageUrl()
    {
        $config = Zend_Registry::get('config');
        if($config->s3->enabled){
            return $config->s3->rootPath; 
        }else{
            return $this->view->baseUrl(); 
        }
    }

In appilication.ini

s3.enabled        = 1
s3.rootPath       = https://xxxxx.s3.amazonaws.com

You can call like this

<img src="<?php echo $this->imageUrl();?>/images/logo.gif"/>

So you can enable/disable the s3 easily.