In View(CakePHP), the proper way to get current controller?

Question

In View, I can get action by using

$this->action

But, I cannot get controller name by

$this->controller

What is the proper way to get current controller in View?

Pushup

If you need this to build links to actions in current controller, remember that you can just omit the 'controller' key in the routing array. – Theurer

Answer 1

Use $this->params['controller'] to get the current controller.

You can do a debug($this->params) to see other available variables.

Antananarivo

$this->params['controller'] returns: something_foo. This means you are using the somethingFooController – Yount

Answer 2

You can get controller like this:

echo "<pre>controller:".$this->request->params['controller']."</pre>";

Although $this->params is shorter, $this->request->params is more autocomplete friendly. You can check the autocomplete options from this question: PHPStorm autocomplete for CakePHP custom helpers in view files

Other data about request can be taken like this:

echo "<pre>action:".$this->request->params['action']."</pre>";

echo "<pre>request:"; print_r( $this->request ); echo "</pre>";

echo "<details><summary>this:</summary><pre>"; 
      print_r( $this ); echo "</pre></details>";

Edit:
As of CakePHP 3 $this->params shortcut is removed. So you should user $this->request->params['controller'] for CakePHP 3.
http://book.cakephp.org/3.0/en/appendices/3-0-migration-guide.html#id2
Also note that first character of controller is uppercase. It was lowercase in Cakephp 2.

Col

Instead of echo "<pre>#code_here#</pre>"; you might want to use "debug()" – Dolly

Answer 3

$this->name also give you controller's name. Their difference with $this->params['controller'] is it's first letter capitalized

debug($this->name);
debug($this->params['controller']);

Results in:

 \app\Controller\AppController.php (line 176)

'Users'

\app\Controller\AppController.php (line 177)

'users'

Holbert

Answer 4

I am using cakephp 3.2

$this->params['controller'] - It is not working, showing error message as bellow..

"Missing Helper"

Following code is working properly in cakephp 3.2

$this->request->params['controller'] - Working

Ligature

Answer 5

To get the current controller, Try this :$this->params['controller']

To get the current action, Try this :$this->params['action'].

Burgh

Answer 6

For cakephp 3.6 and later:

Although above solutions will work but it gives deprecated warning and will not work in cakephp 4. So It is better to use the following code to get the controller name. It will work in view page and controllers as well.

$this->request->getParam('controller')

Fulguration

Answer 7

To get the current,

• controller: $this->params['controller']
• action: $this->params['action']
• arguments:$this->params['pass']

Persevering

Answer 8

All the other solutions are to get the controller name... I need the controller itself, so I did the following function in an AdminHelper.php called by $this->Admin->_getController('MyControllerName') into the view.ctp file

/******************************************************************
 * 
 ******************************************************************/
function _getController( $pControllerName ){
    if ( ! isset($this->controllersArray[$pControllerName]) ){
        $importRes = App::import('Controller', $pControllerName);// The same as require('controllers/users_controller.php');
        $strToEval = "\$controller = new ".$pControllerName."Controller;";
        $evalRes = eval($strToEval);
        if ( $evalRes === false ){
            throw new AppException("Eval returned an error into ".__FILE__." getController()");
        }
        $controller->constructClasses();// If we want the model associations, components, etc to be loaded
        $this->controllersArray[$pControllerName] = $controller;
    }

    $result = $this->controllersArray[$pControllerName];
    return $result;
}

Note: don't forget to declare it into the controller you'll use for example:

• people/view.ctp -> $this->Admin->_getController('MyControllerName')
• PeopleController.ctp -> var $helpers = array('Html', 'Form', 'Admin');
• AdminHelper.ctp -> function _getController(...

Isaacson

Answer 9

Since: 3.7.7 to get the View's controller name use $this->getName();

Owing