Sample custom Url Helper for CLI

test_httpUrl.php

<?php
namespace Application;

class Module implements \Zend\ModuleManager\Feature\ViewHelperProviderInterface
{
    public function getViewHelperConfig() {
        return array(
            'factories' => array(
                'HttpUrl' => function ($sm) {
                    $helper = new \Zend\View\Helper\Url;
                    $locator = $sm->getServiceLocator();
                    $httpRouter = $locator->get('http_router');
                    // site domain may be retrieved from config  
                    $httpRouter->setRequestUri(new \Zend\Uri\Http('http://sample.com/'));
                    
                    $helper->setRouter($httpRouter);

                    return $helper;
                },
            ),
        ); 
    }
}

namespace Application\Controller;

class IndexController extends \Zend\Mvc\Controller\AbstractActionController {
    
    public function testurlAction(){
        $vm = new \Zend\View\Model\ViewModel();
        $vm->setTemplate('application/index/testurl');
        $renderer = $this->getServiceLocator()->get('ViewManager')->getRenderer();

        $text = $renderer->render($vm);
        
        echo $text;
    }

}
?>
template application/index/testurl.phtml:

<?php echo $this->http_url('home/blog_entry', array('id' => 'entry1'), array('force_canonical' => true)); ?>