How do you get the HTTP host with Laravel 5

Question

I'm trying to get the hostname from an HTTP request using Laravel 5, including the subdomain (e.g., dev.site.com). I can't find anything about this in the docs, but I would think that should be pretty simple. Anyone know how to do this?

Answer 1

Good news! It turns out this is actually pretty easy, although Laravel's Request documentation is a bit lacking (the method I wanted is inherited from Symfony's Request class). If you're in a controller method, you can inject the request object, which has a getHttpHost method. This provides exactly what I was looking for:

public function anyMyRoute(Request $request) {     $host = $request->getHttpHost(); // returns dev.site.com } 

From anywhere else in your code, you can still access the request object using the request helper function, so this would look like:

$host = request()->getHttpHost(); // returns dev.site.com 

If you want to include the http/https part of the URL, you can just use the getSchemeAndHttpHost method instead:

$host = $request->getSchemeAndHttpHost(); // returns https://dev.site.com 

It took a bit of digging through the source to find this, so I hope it helps!

Answer 2

There two ways, so be careful:

<?php      $host = request()->getHttpHost(); // With port if there is. Eg: mydomain.com:81      $host = request()->getHost(); // Only hostname Eg: mydomain.com