Class yii\helpers\BaseUrl

Returns the base URL of the current request.

Returns the canonical URL of the currently requested page.

The canonical URL is constructed using the current controller's yii\web\Controller::$route and yii\web\Controller::$actionParams. You may use the following code in the layout view to add a link tag about canonical URL:

$this->registerLinkTag(['rel' => 'canonical', 'href' => Url::canonical()]);

Creates a URL by using the current route and the GET parameters.

You may modify or remove some of the GET parameters, or add additional query parameters through the $params parameter. In particular, if you specify a parameter to be null, then this parameter will be removed from the existing GET parameters; all other parameters specified in $params will be merged with the existing GET parameters. For example,

// assume $_GET = ['id' => 123, 'src' => 'google'], current route is "post/view"

// /index.php?r=post%2Fview&id=123&src=google
echo Url::current();

// /index.php?r=post%2Fview&id=123
echo Url::current(['src' => null]);

// /index.php?r=post%2Fview&id=100&src=google
echo Url::current(['id' => 100]);

Note that if you're replacing array parameters with [] at the end you should specify $params as nested arrays. For a PostSearchForm model where parameter names are PostSearchForm[id] and PostSearchForm[src] the syntax would be the following:

// index.php?r=post%2Findex&PostSearchForm%5Bid%5D=100&PostSearchForm%5Bsrc%5D=google
echo Url::current([
    $postSearch->formName() => ['id' => 100, 'src' => 'google'],
]);

Normalize the URL by ensuring it uses specified scheme.

If the URL is relative or the scheme is not a string, normalization is skipped.

Returns the home URL.

Returns a value indicating whether a URL is relative.

A relative URL does not have host info part.

Normalizes route and makes it suitable for UrlManager. Absolute routes are staying as is while relative routes are converted to absolute ones.

A relative route is a route without a leading slash, such as "view", "post/view".

• If the route is an empty string, the current route will be used;
• If the route contains no slashes at all, it is considered to be an action ID of the current controller and will be prepended with yii\web\Controller::$uniqueId;
• If the route has no leading slash, it is considered to be a route relative to the current module and will be prepended with the module's uniqueId.

Starting from version 2.0.2, a route can also be specified as an alias. In this case, the alias will be converted into the actual route first before conducting the above transformation steps.

Returns the URL previously remembered.

See also:

• remember()
• yii\web\User::getReturnUrl()

Remembers the specified URL so that it can be later fetched back by previous().

See also:

• previous()
• yii\web\User::setReturnUrl()

Creates a URL based on the given parameters.

This method is very similar to toRoute(). The only difference is that this method requires a route to be specified as an array only. If a string is given, it will be treated as a URL. In particular, if $url is

• an array: toRoute() will be called to generate the URL. For example: ['site/index'], ['post/index', 'page' => 2]. Please refer to toRoute() for more details on how to specify a route.
• a string with a leading @: it is treated as an alias, and the corresponding aliased string will be returned.
• an empty string: the currently requested URL will be returned;
• a normal string: it will be returned as is.

When $scheme is specified (either a string or true), an absolute URL with host info (obtained from yii\web\UrlManager::$hostInfo) will be returned. If $url is already an absolute URL, its scheme will be replaced with the specified one.

Below are some examples of using this method:

// /index.php?r=site%2Findex
echo Url::to(['site/index']);

// /index.php?r=site%2Findex&src=ref1#name
echo Url::to(['site/index', 'src' => 'ref1', '#' => 'name']);

// /index.php?r=post%2Findex     assume the alias "@posts" is defined as "/post/index"
echo Url::to(['@posts']);

// the currently requested URL
echo Url::to();

// /images/logo.gif
echo Url::to('@web/images/logo.gif');

// images/logo.gif
echo Url::to('images/logo.gif');

// http://www.example.com/images/logo.gif
echo Url::to('@web/images/logo.gif', true);

// https://www.example.com/images/logo.gif
echo Url::to('@web/images/logo.gif', 'https');

// //www.example.com/images/logo.gif
echo Url::to('@web/images/logo.gif', '');

Creates a URL for the given route.

This method will use yii\web\UrlManager to create a URL.

You may specify the route as a string, e.g., site/index. You may also use an array if you want to specify additional query parameters for the URL being created. The array format must be:

// generates: /index.php?r=site/index&param1=value1&param2=value2
['site/index', 'param1' => 'value1', 'param2' => 'value2']

If you want to create a URL with an anchor, you can use the array format with a # parameter. For example,

// generates: /index.php?r=site/index&param1=value1#name
['site/index', 'param1' => 'value1', '#' => 'name']

A route may be either absolute or relative. An absolute route has a leading slash (e.g. /site/index), while a relative route has none (e.g. site/index or index). A relative route will be converted into an absolute one by the following rules:

• If the route is an empty string, the current route will be used;
• If the route contains no slashes at all (e.g. index), it is considered to be an action ID of the current controller and will be prepended with yii\web\Controller::$uniqueId;
• If the route has no leading slash (e.g. site/index), it is considered to be a route relative to the current module and will be prepended with the module's uniqueId.

Starting from version 2.0.2, a route can also be specified as an alias. In this case, the alias will be converted into the actual route first before conducting the above transformation steps.

Below are some examples of using this method:

// /index.php?r=site%2Findex
echo Url::toRoute('site/index');

// /index.php?r=site%2Findex&src=ref1#name
echo Url::toRoute(['site/index', 'src' => 'ref1', '#' => 'name']);

// http://www.example.com/index.php?r=site%2Findex
echo Url::toRoute('site/index', true);

// https://www.example.com/index.php?r=site%2Findex
echo Url::toRoute('site/index', 'https');

// /index.php?r=post%2Findex     assume the alias "@posts" is defined as "post/index"
echo Url::toRoute('@posts');