Where is $this->baseurl defined in joomla?

Question

I asked this question on stackoverflow.com first (question here). In the comments you can read that it would be better if I ask that question here.

On my joomla website I'm using echo $this->baseurl; but it returns the url containing "/index.php". I want to change this to remove "/index.php" from baseurl. But I cannot find the definition line of $this->baseurl;.

I found this thread but this is based on the template of the question owner and in my template there isn't something like this.

Suggestions very appreciated :)

Answer 1

$this->baseurl; is basically the shortcut for JUri::base(). It gets the URL you have specified as the live_site variable in your configuration.php file. If this has no value, then it will use some PHP magic based on a few variables.

So, lets run a few tests. Please report the results back:

Test 1:

<?php
  echo 'Rule 1: ' . JUri::base() . '\n';
  echo 'Rule 2: ' . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . '\n';
  echo 'Rule 3: ' . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] . '\n';
  echo 'Rule 4: ' . $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] . '\n';
?>

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Test 2:

<?php
    echo JUri::base();
    echo JUri::base(true);
?>

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Test 3:

In the Global Configuration (Joomla backend), try setting URL rewriting to Yes. If this does not work then read Steps 1, 2 and 5 of the Apache section on this page, and try again.

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Test 4:

At the top of your template's index.php file, add the following

<?php
    $this->baseurl = JUri::base();
?>

Answer 2

The $this->baseurl; is a shortcut to be used from inside a template, instead of calling the JURI:base(); method, of the JURI class. It is part of the core and you can find it at /libraries/joomla/environment/uri.php (~line 218).

If you look at the method, you will see that it checks in the configuration file to see if the $live_url variable is defined. If yes it will return this URL, otherwise it will go through a number of other checks and return your actual base URI.

Most probably you have the live_url variable defined in your configuration.php that includes the index.php at the end. Check there...

Another possibility is that your current template /template system has somewhere defined the $this->baseurl property. You can easily override the $this->baseurl inside your template by re-defining it again at the top of the index.php file of your template, like: $this->baseurl = JURI::base();

*Update:

• I mentioned where you can find the method, but this does not mean that you should go there and do any modifications to the core. That was only for informational purposes.

Update 2 - for future references

To complete the information given in this post, the JURI::base($pathonly boolean) takes one argument, the $pathonly which is a boolean data type - false is the default.

With $pathonly = true, it will return only the path to the site.

Examples:

<?php echo JURI::base(); ?> Would echo something like: http:://localhost/joomla25/
<?php echo JURI::base(true); ?> Would echo: /joomla25

Note that when $pathonly = true, the trailing slash at the end of the URI path is ommited.