How do I get the full URL to an image in Cakephp?

cakephp, hyperlink, image, path, url

Solution

After trying the various CakePHP global constants (ROOT, WEBROOT_DIR, WWW_ROOT, CSS, etc.) with no results, the general solution seems to be found in the $this->webroot property that returns the path to the application webroot. Thus for the various cases above we may have in our layouts, views or elements:

A simple image tag:

<img src="<?php echo $this->webroot; ?>img/foo.gif" .../ >

A background image within a table cell the old way:

<td background="<?php echo $this->webroot; ?>img/foo.gif">

An input of type="image":

<input type="image" src="<?php echo $this->webroot; ?>img/go_btn.gif" ... /> 

I think webroot always work

Problem

Let's say I have an "image.jpg" stored in the assets folder and the path is "www.example.com/public" and I want only the string path to the image. How do I get this? I do NOT want the html tags only the path string.

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