If you ever needed to retrieve the path to your theme folder, you can easily do this by calling this function:

The code above will return something similar to: http://www.yoursite.com/skin/frontend/default/default/

Anyone needing to retrieve the base URL path from Magento, just place this one line of code and there you have it! Hope this helps someone.

The popular URL shortening service TinyURL provides a quick API that creates TinyURL’s on the fly. Here’s how you can access that API.

Make a call to our function above, and it outputs a new tinyURL.