Laravel: Get base URL

Simple question, but the answer seems quite hard to come by. In Codeigniter, I could load the URL helper and then simply do

echo base_url();

to get my site’s URL. Is there an equivalent in Laravel?

Answer

You can use the URL facade which lets you do calls to the URL generator

So you can do:

URL::to('/');

You can also use the application container:

$app->make('url')->to('/');
$app['url']->to('/');
App::make('url')->to('/');

Or inject the UrlGenerator:

<?php
namespace VendorYourClassNamespace;

use IlluminateRoutingUrlGenerator;

class Classname
{
    protected $url;

    public function __construct(UrlGenerator $url)
    {
        $this->url = $url;
    }

    public function methodName()
    {
        $this->url->to('/');
    }
}