Get Laravel 5 controller name in view - laravel-5

Question

Our old website CSS was set up so that the body tag had an id of the controller name and a class of the action name, using Zend Framework 1. Now we're switching to Laravel 5. I found a way to get the action name through the Route class, but can't find a method for the controller name. I don't see anything in the Laravel docs like this. Any ideas?
This is how you do with action. You inject the Route class, and then call:
$route->getActionName().
I'm looking for something similar for controllers. I've checked the entire route class and found nothing.

Answer 1

If your layout is a Blade template, you could create a view composer that injects those variables into your layout. In app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php add something like this:
public function boot()
{
app('view')->composer('layouts.master', function ($view) {
$action = app('request')->route()->getAction();
$controller = class_basename($action['controller']);
list($controller, $action) = explode('#', $controller);
$view->with(compact('controller', 'action'));
});
}
You will then have two variables available in your layout template: $controller and $action.

Answer 2

I use a simple solution. You can test and use it in everywhere, also in your views:
{{ dd(request()->route()->getAction()) }}

Answer 3

I will simply use as bellow
$request->route()->getActionMethod()

Answer 4

To get something like PostController try following ...
preg_match('/([a-z]*)#/i', $request->route()->getActionName(), $matches);
$controllerName = $matches[1];
$matches[1] includes the first group while $matches[0] includes everything matched. So also the # which isn't desired.

Answer 5

use this
strtok(substr(strrchr($request->route()->getActionName(), '\\'), 1), '#')

Answer 6

To add to Martin Bean answer, using Route::view in your routes will cause the list function to throw an Undefined offset error when this code runs;
list($controller, $action) = explode('#', $controller);
Instead use this, which assigns null to $action if not present
list($controller, $action) = array_pad(explode('#', $controller), 2, null);

Answer 7

You can use this to just simply display in the title like "Customer - My Site" (laravel 9)
{{ str_replace('Controller', '', strtok(substr(strrchr(request()->route()->getActionName(), '\\'), 1), '#'))}} - {{ config('app.name') }}

Answer 8

You can add this (tested with Laravel v7+)
<?php
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;
echo Route::getCurrentRoute()->getActionMethod();
?>
or
You can use helper function
<?php echo request()->route()->getActionMethod(); ?>
for example :-
Route::get('test', [\App\Http\Controllers\ExampleController::class, 'exampleTest'])->name('testExample');
Now If I request {app_url}/test then it will return exampleTest