ZF2 - Get controller name into layout/views

Question

I know with ZF1 you would retrieve the module/controller name using custom View Helpers that would get the singleton frontController object and get the name there.

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Answer 1

ZF2 is out and so is the skeleton. This is adding on top of the skeleton so it should be your best example:

Inside Module.php

public function onBootstrap($e)
{
    $e->getApplication()->getServiceManager()->get('translator');
    $e->getApplication()->getServiceManager()->get('viewhelpermanager')->setFactory('controllerName', function($sm) use ($e) {
        $viewHelper = new View\Helper\ControllerName($e->getRouteMatch());
        return $viewHelper;
    });

    $eventManager        = $e->getApplication()->getEventManager();
    $moduleRouteListener = new ModuleRouteListener();
    $moduleRouteListener->attach($eventManager);
}

The actual ViewHelper:

// Application/View/Helper/ControllerName.php

namespace Application\View\Helper;

use Zend\View\Helper\AbstractHelper;

class ControllerName extends AbstractHelper
{

protected $routeMatch;

    public function __construct($routeMatch)
    {
        $this->routeMatch = $routeMatch;
    }

    public function __invoke()
    {
        if ($this->routeMatch) {
            $controller = $this->routeMatch->getParam('controller', 'index');
            return $controller;
        }
    }
}

Inside any of your views/layouts

echo $this->controllerName()

Answer 2

I created CurrentRoute View Helper for this purpose.

Install it:

composer require tasmaniski/zf2-current-route

Register module in config/application.config.php:

'modules' => array(
    '...',
    'CurrentRoute'
),

Use it in any view/layout file:

$this->currentRoute()->getController();  // return current controller name
$this->currentRoute()->getAction();      // return current action name
$this->currentRoute()->getModule();      // return current module name
$this->currentRoute()->getRoute();       // return current route name

You can see full documentation and code https://github.com/tasmaniski/zf2-current-route

Answer 3

Short Code here :

$this->getHelperPluginManager()->getServiceLocator()->get('application')->getMvcEvent()->getRouteMatch()->getParam('action', 'index');

$controller = $this->getHelperPluginManager()->getServiceLocator()->get('application')->getMvcEvent()->getRouteMatch()->getParam('controller', 'index');

$controller = array_pop(explode('\', $controller));

Answer 4

instead of extending onBootStrap() in Module.php, you can use getViewHelperConfig() (also in Module.php). The actual helper is unchanged, but you get the following code to create it:

public function getViewHelperConfig()
{
   return array(
         'factories' => array(
            'ControllerName' => function ($sm) {
               $match = $sm->getServiceLocator()->get('application')->getMvcEvent()->getRouteMatch();
               $viewHelper = new \Application\View\Helper\ControllerName($match);
               return $viewHelper;
            },
         ),
   );
}

Answer 5

Get controller / action name in controller in Zend-3 framework

private function getControllerActionName()
{
    $currentController = $this->getEvent()->getRouteMatch()->getParam('controller', 'index');
    $explode_controller = explode('\\', $currentController);
    $currentController = strtolower(array_pop($explode_controller));
    $currentController = str_replace('controller', '', $currentController);
    $currentAction = strtolower($this->getEvent()->getRouteMatch()->getParam('action', 'index'));
    return array(
            'controller' => $currentController,
            'action' => $currentAction,
        );
}

It works for me. I hope, this will also help you. Thanks for asking this question.

Answer 6

In zf2 beta4 it made in this manner:

public function init(ModuleManager $moduleManager)
{

    $sharedEvents = $moduleManager->events()->getSharedManager();
    $sharedEvents->attach('bootstrap', 'bootstrap', array($this, 'onBootstrap'));
}

public function onBootstrap($e)
{
    $app     = $e->getParam('application');
    // some your code here
    $app->events()->attach('route', array($this, 'onRouteFinish'), -100);
}

public function onRouteFinish($e)
{
     $matches    = $e->getRouteMatch();
     $controller = $matches->getParam('controller');
     var_dump($controller);die();
}