How to get current router in Yii Framework?

Question

I am a Zend Framework [version 1] developer, now I am trying to learn the Yii Framework.

How do I get the current router in Yii Framework?

Answer 1

For an example URL of http://site.ru/forum/index?var=val:

• Yii::app()->getRequest()->getQueryString() will return var=val,

• Yii::app()->getRequest()->getPathInfo() will return forum/index,

• Yii::app()->getRequest()->getBaseUrl() will return /forum,

• Yii::app()->getRequest()->getUrl() will return forum/index?var=val,

• Yii::app()->getRequest()->getHostInfo() will return http://site.ru,

• Yii::app()->getRequest()->getRequestUri() will return forum/index?var=val.

Answer 2

In case you were after the route, not path related information: in most view files (and the layout) you can use $this->route and if you're not in the right context for that to be available view $this then you can often use Yii::app()->controller->route.

Both return the current matching route from the url manager. Something like:

site/index

site/error

user/edit

Additionally, to just get the current controller in use you can use $this->id to return something like site or user