How to get the current page name in Silex

Question

I'm wondering how to get the current page name, basically 'just' the last parameter in the route (i.e. /news or /about). I'm doing this because I want to be able to have the current page in the navigation highlighted.

Ideally, I'd like to store the current page name in a global variable so that in Twig I can just compare the current page name against the link and add a class accordingly.

I can't figure out how to add the current page name to a global variable though. I've tried using something like this:

$app['twig']->addGlobal('current_page_name', $app['request']->getRequestUri());

at the top of my app.php file, but an 'outside of request scope' error. But I wouldn't like to have to include this in every route.

What's the best way to do this?

Answer 1

If you put it into an app-level before middleware like this, that'll work:

$app->before(function (Request $request) use ($app) {
    $app['twig']->addGlobal('current_page_name', $request->getRequestUri());
});

The "page name" part of your question is unclear, are you looking for the current route's name? You can access that via $request->get("_route") even in the before middleware, as it gets called when routing is already done.