Get skin path in Magento

Question

I have a few custom PHP functions for my Magento store that I stored in myfunc php and I need to require it from in a few different  phtml files  How do I do that   I mean I can use an absolute path but that would be dirty and probably problematic when migrating to another server   For now I m stuck with   require   home myuser public html app design frontend default mytheme myfunc php      How do I refer to the skin path    home myuser public html app design frontend default mytheme    programmatically

User · Accepted Answer

The way that Magento themes handle actual url's is as such (in view partials - phtml files):

echo $this->getSkinUrl('images/logo.png');

If you need the actual base path on disk to the image directory use:

echo Mage::getBaseDir('skin');

Some more base directory types are available in this great blog post:

http://alanstorm.com/magento_base_directories

User · Answer

First note that   Mage  getBaseDir  skin     returns only path to skin directory of your Magento install   your magento dir skin    You can access absolute path to currently used skin directory using   Mage  getDesign  - gt getSkinBaseDir     This method accepts an associative array as optional parameter to modify result   Following keys are recognized     area frontend  default  or adminhtml  package your package  theme your theme  relative when this is set  as an key  path relative to Mage  getBaseDir  skin   is returned    So in your case correct answer would be   require Mage  getDesign  - gt getSkinBaseDir   DS  myfunc php

User · Answer

To get that file use the below code   include Mage  getBaseDir  skin    myfunc php      But it is not a correct way  To add your custom functions you can use the below file    app code core Mage core functions php   Kindly avoid to use the PHP function under skin dir

User · Answer

To use it in phtml apply    echo  this- gt getSkinUrl  your image folder under skin image name png      To use skin path in cms page     lt img style  width  715px  height  266px   src    skin url images banner1 jpg    alt  title    gt    This part            skin url images banner1 jpg    I hope this will help you

User · Answer

To get current skin URL use this Mage  getDesign  - gt getSkinUrl

User · Answer

First of all it is not recommended to have php files with functions in design folder  You should create a new module or extend  copy from core to local a helper and add function onto that class  and do not change files from app code core   To answer to your question you can use   require Mage  getBaseDir  design     frontend default mytheme myfunc php      Best practice  as a start  will be to create in  app code local Mage Core Helper Extra php a php file    lt  php class Mage Core Helper Extra extends Mage Core Helper Abstract        public function getSomething                 return  Someting              And to use it in phtml files use    this- gt helper  core extra  - gt getSomething      Or in all the places   Mage  helper  core extra  - gt getSomething

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