$this->view->headLink()->appendStylesheet('/css/tester.css');

In your view or layout you can then call

$this->headLink();

This works great. But the current development structure lacks some good rewrite rules. And having the baseUrl is always a good thing. So i did some searching on Google. To figure out if somebody already has a solution for this problem. After a few minutes i found a post written by Yusak Setiawan from zendindonesia (which is defaced by the way) explaining how to add a placeholder in the bootstrap file. Now this is a good solution. But i like to keep my bootstrap file as clean as possible. So i decided to add a Helper that would do the trick.

Create a file called ‘BaseUrl.php’ inside the Helper directory. And fill it with the following code.

class Zend_View_Helper_BaseUrl
{
    function baseUrl()
    {
        $base_url = substr($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], 0, -9);
        return $base_url;
    }
}

After that it’s extremly easy to get the baseUrl in your views, layouts or controllers.

Inside the view or layout you can call:

$this->baseUrl();

And inside the controller you can call it like this.

$this->view->baseUrl();

Tudor Barbu wrote a great article on this subject.