How to add a trailing slash on URL - php

Question

I would like all URLs on my site to have a trailing slash on the URL. I created a simple extension for the URLHelper in Zend. Right now it changes all the word separators to hyphens (-). Adding the functionality to append a trailing slash would be great. The commented out line (hack) didn't work. The slash ended up being url-encoded.
I know this has to be an easy fix and right in front of my face, but it's escaping me. :\
class Ace_Helpers_Url extends Zend_View_Helper_Url
{
/**
* Generates an url given the name of a route.
*
* #access public
*
* #param array $urlOptions Options passed to the assemble method of the Route object.
* #param mixed $name The name of a Route to use. If null it will use the current Route
* #param bool $reset Whether or not to reset the route defaults with those provided
* #return string Url for the link href attribute.
*/
public function url(array $urlOptions = array(), $name = null, $reset = false, $encode = false)
{
if (is_array($urlOptions)) {
foreach ($urlOptions as $index => $option) {
$urlOptions[$index] = trim(strtolower(str_replace(' ', '-', $option)));
#$urlOptions[$index] .= '/'; #Add trailing slash for continuity
}
}
$router = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance()->getRouter();
return $router->assemble($urlOptions, $name, $reset, $encode);
}
}

Answer 1

Appending it manually isn't really that hard:
<?php echo $this->url(array(
'controller' => 'index'
)).'/'; ?>
If you want to avoid url encoding, check out the fourth parametre to the url helper: encode. Set it to false and it will not url-encode your input, so you can do something like this:
<?php echo $this->url(array(
'alias' => 'blog/2011/09/example-blog-entry'
),'alias',true,false); ?>

Answer 2

My solution is based on this discussion.
application/view/helpers/Url2.php
class Zend_View_Helper_Url2 extends Zend_View_Helper_Url
{
/**
* Keeps Url()'s original params and their default values, so we don't have to
* learn yet another method.
*/
public function url2(array $urlOptions = array(), $name = null, $reset = false, $encode = true)
{
return parent::url($urlOptions, $name, $reset, $encode) . '/';
}
}
in some controller
echo $this->view->url2(array('controller' => 'index'));
or some view
echo $this->url2(array('controller' => 'index'));