From f3be544b1a35a9b49d1f4075fa4ae2a26acec6f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Taylor Otwell <taylorotwell@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 10:58:38 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] cache base url.

---
 laravel/asset.php |  1 -
 laravel/url.php   | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++---
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/laravel/asset.php b/laravel/asset.php
index dea24519..8b6f9308 100644
--- a/laravel/asset.php
+++ b/laravel/asset.php
@@ -78,7 +78,6 @@ class Asset_Container {
 	 * Create a new asset container instance.
 	 *
 	 * @param  string  $name
-	 * @param  HTML    $html
 	 * @return void
 	 */
 	public function __construct($name)
diff --git a/laravel/url.php b/laravel/url.php
index 30f83216..11b142dc 100644
--- a/laravel/url.php
+++ b/laravel/url.php
@@ -2,6 +2,13 @@
 
 class URL {
 
+	/**
+	 * The cached base URL.
+	 *
+	 * @var string
+	 */
+	public static $base;
+
 	/**
 	 * Get the base URL of the application.
 	 *
@@ -9,7 +16,17 @@ class URL {
 	 */
 	public static function base()
 	{
-		if (($base = Config::get('application.url')) !== '') return $base;
+		if (isset(static::$base)) return static::$base;
+
+		$base = 'http://localhost';
+
+		// If the application URL configuration is set, we will just use
+		// that instead of trying to guess the URL based on the $_SERVER
+		// array's host and script name.
+		if (($url = Config::get('application.url')) !== '')
+		{
+			$base = $url;
+		}
 
 		if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']))
 		{
@@ -21,10 +38,10 @@ public static function base()
 			// construct the base URL to the application.
 			$path = str_replace(basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']), '', $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']);
 
-			return rtrim($protocol.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$path, '/');
+			$base = rtrim($protocol.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$path, '/');
 		}
 
-		return 'http://localhost';
+		return static::$base = $base;
 	}
 
 	/**