How to get base URL, Skin Url, JS URL, Media URL, Current URL in magento?

While working on magento themeing, we need to get some url(s) in temlate (phtml) file or cms pages/block in magento adminstration panel.

here I am gonna show you how to get these url(s) in template file or cms pages/block

getting url(s) in phtml

• Get Base Url of magento e.g. (http://www.example.com)

  1	Mage::getBaseUrl();

• Get active Skin url in magento (http://www.example.com/skin/frontend/<activepackage>/<activetheme>)

  1	Mage::getBaseUrl(Mage_Core_Model_Store::URL_TYPE_SKIN);

• get url for image,css etc in skin directory (http://www.example.com/skin/frontend/<activepackage>/<activetheme>/<js|css|images>/<filename>)

  1	$this->getSkinUrl('images/imagename.png');

  if you are looking for to get the above url in secure mode like (https://www.example.com/skin/frontend/<activepackage>/<activetheme>/<js|css|images>/<filename>)

  1	$this->getSkinUrl('images/imagename.png', array('_secure'=>true));

  or if you forecfully want to get secure url then:

  1	$this->getSkinUrl('images/imagename.png', array('_forced_secure'=>true));

• Get Media Url (http://www.example.com/media)

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  Mage::getBaseUrl(Mage_Core_Model_Store::URL_TYPE_MEDIA); <pre> </li> <li> <p>get Js Url(http://www.example.com/js/)</p> <pre lang="php" line="1"> Mage::getBaseUrl(Mage_Core_Model_Store::URL_TYPE_JS);

  Note: if you want to get js url from skin directory than using following code

  1	$this->getSkinUrl('js/customjs.js');

• Get Current Url

  1	Mage::helper('core/url')->getCurrentUrl();

getting url(s) in cms block or cms pages in administration panel

• Get Base Url of magento e.g. (http://www.example.com)

  1	{{store url=""}}

• get url for image,css etc in skin directory (http://www.example.com/skin/frontend/<activepackage>/<activetheme>/<js|css|images>/<filename>)

  1	{{skin url='images/imagename.png'}}

• Get Media Url (http://www.example.com/media/abc.jpg)

  1	{{media url='/abc.jpg'}}