Re: creating absolute links (including site)

actually its even way easiert!

$html->link($url, TRUE)

does the trick

the above solution from john might even be wrong in some cases
(if you're not at the top level of your domain, it adds the folders to
the webroot twice...)

On 29 Dez., 12:00, Lorenzo Bettini <bett...@dsi.unifi.it> wrote:
> Hey thanks, that's exactly what I needed!
>
> I had searched for it in the HtmlHelper but I hadn't found it since it's
> an inherited method :)
>
> cheers
>         Lorenzo
>
>
>
>
>
> John Andersen wrote:
> > Use the html helpers url method to create the full url for the html
> > helpers link method, as:
>
> > echo $html->link('TEST LINK', $html->url('/advances/forward', true));
>
> > Enjoy,
> >    John
>
> > On Dec 29, 11:07 am, Lorenzo Bettini <bett...@dsi.unifi.it> wrote:
> >> Hi
>
> >> with the Html and Form helper it's already easy to create absolute links
> >> (starting from the root of the site), but I'd need to create links that
> >> also include the address of the site (starting with http://).
>
> >> This is needed since the output of the cakephp site should also be
> >> included in other sites (with different addresses).
>
> >> Is there an automatic way to do this?  Or, I guess, I should set the
> >> site name in some configuration file myself?
>
> >> thanks in advance
> >>         Lorenzo
>
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