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Best practice to create absolute URLs with Zend framework?

Is there a best practice for creating absolute URLs using the Zend framework? I wonder if there is some helper or if this would just be concatenating the scheme, host, etc. from the $_SERVER variable and then add the relative path generated by Zend.

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  • phpfour's way is OK, but you have to check for https://, ftp:// and mailto: too... :)

    I prefefer having all urls root-absolute (/files/js/jquery.js). The "hardcore zend way" is 

    <?php 
// document root for example.com is in /htdocs 
// but application's index.php resides in /htdocs/myapp/public
echo $this->baseUrl('css/base.css'); 
//will return /myapp/public/css/base.css

echo $this->serverUrl() . $this->baseUrl('css/base.css');
//will return http://www.example.com/myapp/public/css/base.css

echo '//' . $this->getHelper('ServerUrl')->getHost() . $this->baseUrl('css/base.css');
//will return protocol relative URL //www.example.com/myapp/public/css/base.css