Getting Current Controller ID in Yii

Question

I want to get the current controller name that handles the current action. but the in my case I will look for the current controller in my main.php in my layout files.

this is my small view of my directory structure to give you an idea where is my layout files and the file where i will put my codes in searching of my controller name

• /protected
• /themes
  • /mylayout
    • /layouts
      • main.php
      • column1.php
      • column2.php
    • /site
      • index.php

Is this possible? im trying the following codes but i failed to get my current controller name...

echo Yii::app()->controller->getId;
echo Yii:app()->getController->id;
echo Yii:app()->controller->uniqueID;

thanks

Cicely

Answer 1

<?php echo $this->getUniqueId();?>

this will show current controller

Timeworn

Answer 2

Like this

Yii::app()->controller->id

or

Yii::app()->getController()->getId()

http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/api/1.1/CApplication#getController-detail

Drainage

I prefer your answer, because your answer works any where, views, widgets, extensions, etc. E.G. in case of calling CGridView, $this refers to it's widgets and $this->id results in widget name and not controller name. – Unmixed

Answer 3

Controller Id :

$this->id

Here $this refers to controller.

And For getting action id :

$this->action->id

Pricecutting

thanks for help but. I will look for the current controller in my main.php in my layout files... is that possible? – Cicely

Answer 4

You're not actually required to use the static function. Whenever in a view( or template) you can use echo $this->getUniqueId(); to get the unique controller ID.

Assam

Answer 5

Yii2:

Yii::$app->controller->id

(Documentation: Application and Controller)

Rhine