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?

Solution 1

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

Solution 2

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()->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()->getSkinBaseDir().DS.'myfunc.php');

Solution 3

To use it in phtml apply :

echo $this->getSkinUrl('your_image_folder_under_skin/image_name.png');

To use skin path in cms page :

<img style="width: 715px; height: 266px;" src="{{skin url=images/banner1.jpg}}" alt="title" />

This part====> {{skin url=images/banner1.jpg}}

I hope this will help you.

Solution 4

To get current skin URL use this Mage::getDesign()->getSkinUrl()

Solution 5

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:

<?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->helper('core/extra')->getSomething();

Or in all the places:

Mage::helper('core/extra')->getSomething();

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Comments

[Alex]

Please do not put PHP function code to the theme. This should be in the module (app/code/X/...)

[Aaron Miller]

Any modifications made in app/code/core will be overwritten upon Magento upgrade, and it is therefore inadvisable to make any changes within that hierarchy.

[Yaroslav]

What does it adds to the currently accepted answer? This is exactly the same suggested there. This should be a comment, not an answer. Check this metaSO question and Jon Skeet: Coding Blog on how to give a correct answer.

[Justin]

You can pass the path as a parameter Mage::getDesign()->getSkinUrl('image/example.png')