Globally accessible variable for setting paths - Laravel 4

Question

setting up Laravel 4 and looking for a way too sort out the base path for local vs live development.

My website currently runs on 'www.project.com' and then I access the site on local machine as 'localhost:8888/project'.

For things such as CSS and image paths etc I am looking for a way to have a variable for the base paths so I dont have to manually go changing paths etc when switching to live host.

I currently use the environment for my database settings:

$env = $app->detectEnvironment(array(

    'local' => array('MacBook.local'),
    'production' => array('project.com'),

));

Can I work with something similar to this so its all done automatically?

My css paths in my template blade file are:

'/css/main.css'

And then on local:

'/project/public_html/css/main.css'

Unless there is a way to get the route of what I am trying to do with PHP?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You may use something like this:

<!--Blade-->
<link href="{{ asset('css/main.css') }}" rel="stylesheet" />

<!--Non-Blade-->
<link href="<?php echo asset('css/main.css') ?>" rel="stylesheet" />

This will solve the problem. Check the asset helper function on the documentation.