How to get domain root url in Laravel 4?

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Shane picture Shane · Jul 28, 2014 · Viewed 97.9k times · Source

I'm ready to scream how hard can this be? I've been trying for too long. If I have http://www.example.com/more/pages/page.php or similar I want to be able to get www.example.com.

Thats all. So I can use it as I please. This will of course change if on production or development so I want to ascertain it dynamically.

Request::root()

returns http://www.example.com/more/pages/page.php

URL::to('/')

returns http://www.example.com/more/pages/page.php

How do I get this? Why am I having so much trouble to do this??

Answer

lowerends picture lowerends · Jul 28, 2014

UPDATE (2017-07-12)

A better solution is actually to use Request::getHost()

Previous answer:

I just checked and Request::root(); does return http://www.example.com in my case, no matter which route I'm on. You can then do the following to strip off the http:// part:

if (starts_with(Request::root(), 'http://'))
{
    $domain = substr (Request::root(), 7); // $domain is now 'www.example.com'
}

You may want to double check or post more code (routes.php, controller code, ...) if the problem persists.

Another solution is to simply use $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].

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