Is there a "site_url" constant for use in module code?

Hi Bob,

In the module, you can use following code to get the site url as:

$site_url = $this->EE->config->item('site_url');

or simply assign this value within constructor and access it anywhere within the module like $this->site_url;

Best Regards,

Yes, Bhashkar is right.

A lot of the time I find myself switching back and forth between Codeigniter Docs and EE Docs.

See heading “Fetching Config Items” on this page: http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/libraries/config.html

Codeigniter will be $this->config->item, where EE will always be $this->EE->config->item

In the Expression Engine, there are some predefined variables like EXT, BASEPATH, APPPATH, FCPATH which can be used within any add-on but not SITE_URL.

So it need to fetch it from config variables via the code.

Best Regards,

Furthermore, I think it’s defined in the config for Multiple Site Manager reasons and it wouldn’t make sense to make it a Constant.

Thanks Bhashkar. That was what I was looking for. Also, Bransin, the lack of a constant for compatibility with Multiple Site Manager makes complete sense to me.

I tried adding the line of code to the constructor function but I must be doing something wrong with the coding. This leads me to another question about how best to create “global” values within Exp Eng modules for use by any function in the module. Following is the construct function…

/**
  * FUNCTION - Construct
  */
 function __construct()
 {

  $this->EE =& get_instance() ;
  $site_url = $this->EE->config->item('site_url') ;

 } // end function construct

However, if I use this->$site_url or this->EE->$site_url something goes wrong with the code. I tried the following…

$site_url = $this->EE->site_url ;
$site_url = $this->site_url ;

Both of the above return an empty value.

Thanks, Bob.