Thread: getUrl not prepending appropiate URL

Hey, not sure where to ask this question, but...

I'm trying to use the following function to prefix Url's dynamically within my application, both for use in Smarty templates and in breadcrumbs, etc:

Code:

public function getUrl($action = null, $controller = null)
        {
            $url  = rtrim($this->getRequest()->getBaseUrl(), '/') . '/';
            $url .= $this->_helper->url->simple($action, $controller);

            return $url;
        }

I'm also using a Smarty pluggin, which contains basically the same function listed here above, to output the Url's using: {geturl controller='events'} or {geturl controller='account' action='logout'}, etc. The smarty class looks like this:

Code:

<?php
    function smarty_function_geturl($params, $smarty)
    {
        $action     = isset($params['action']) ? $params['action'] : null;
        $controller = isset($params['controller']) ? $params['controller'] : null;

        $helper = Zend_Controller_Action_HelperBroker::getStaticHelper('url');

        $request = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance()->getRequest();

        $url  = rtrim($request->getBaseUrl(), '/') . '/';
        $url .= $helper->simple($action, $controller);

        return $url;
    }
?>

I'm not sure how or why, sometimes it outputs correctly, but often is doesn't and the Url will be:

http://events/

Etc...

I'm using a virtual host to locate my root directory, maybe this has something to do with it?

But given the output http://events/, it seems like the call to getBaseUrl() isn't returning correctly...any ideas?