How to Get Base URL in a Layout XML File in Magento 1.9

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I'm using Magento 1.9 and in app/design/frontend/mytheme/mytheme/layout/page.xml I got the following code snippet:

<reference name="head">
<block type="core/text" name="stylescss">
    <action method="setText">
        <css><![CDATA[<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://www.example.com/css/styles.css?v=1.0" media="all" />]]></css>
    </action>
</block>

This was done originally in order to be able to control the version of the stylesheet, and bypass several layers of caching, forcing the user browser to fetch a different version of the file.

Is there a way to replace www.example.com for a variable containing the baseurl?

P.S. Any alternative solution to add versioning to a file, is more than welcome 🙂

Thank you

Best Answer

You could use use helper method.

<reference name="head">
    <block type="core/text" name="stylescss">
        <action method="setText">
            <css helper="your_module/someHelperMethod" />
    </action>
</block>

And then, in your module helper file, create method, which return string with base url.

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This is not possible. Because..

child blocks which are included inside head block will get only rendered after rendering/including js and css which are added in head block, irrespective of the point of inclusion in the layout update xml.

Proof : head block stands for Mage_Page_Block_Html_Head and by default it uses page/html/head.phtml file. Inside that file, you can see this

<?php echo $this->getCssJsHtml() ?>
<?php echo $this->getChildHtml() ?>

From the above code, it is obvious that, blocks included in head section will get rendered "later".

So you can probably go with below method. It may work in your case.

You need to add menu_default.js inside the phtml file itself.

That is your layout update xml should only contain the phtml file.

<reference name="head">
    <block type="fabric_tool/tool" name="js" template="fabric/tool/global.phtml"/>
</reference>

Here you need to make sure the above js block type is actually valid and does define inside magento block section.

Next update your global.phtml file with this content.

<script>
     var BASE_URL='<?php echo Mage::getBaseUrl();?>';
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php echo $this->getSkinUrl('js/fabric/tool/men_default.js');?>"></script>

This way javascript variable BASE_URL is now defined before menu_default.js and hence you can get the value inside that file.

Magento 1.9 – How to Set HTML Data in Layout XML

you can use helpers to get the value for a specific parameter: Something like this:

<block type="core/template" name="payment.method.cashondelivery">
    <action method="setMethodLabelAfterHtml">
         <html helper="[helper_alias]/getCacheOnDeliveryHtml" />
    </action>
</block>

now you need to create a module with a helper and in that helper add this:

public function getCacheOnDeliveryHtml()
{
    $block = Mage::app()->getLayout()->createBlock('core/template')
           ->setTemplate('checkout/onepage/payment/cashondelivery.phtml');
    return $block->toHtml();
}

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