Zend Framework 2: get matched route in view

Question

I'm currently learning ZF2 by developing a small MVC application roughly based on the skeleton app. Right now I'm trying to hide some fixed HTML elements based on the route matched: just as an example, I don't want the main menu to show during the login phase.

I can do that easily by passing toggle parameters as return values from the controller actions, but it doesn't feel right, so I'd like to just check the matched route from the layout and compose the layout accordingly.

Problem is, I don't know how to get the matched route in the template. Is this possible? Are there other solutions to avoid adding layout logic into controllers?

Edit after some good Frankenstein work, I was able to find a solution for this. I like the idea of using a helper, so I just tried to pass it the Application object, from the boostrap function in the main module:

$app = $e->getApplication();
$serviceManager = $app->getServiceManager();
....
$serviceManager->get('viewhelpermanager')->setFactory('getRoute', function($sm) use ($app) {
    return new Helper\GetRoute($app);
});

and the helper function:

use Zend\View\Helper\AbstractHelper;

class GetRoute extends AbstractHelper {
    private $sm;

    public function __construct($app) {
        $this->sm = $app->getServiceManager();
    }

    public function echoRoute() {
        $router = $this->sm->get('router');
        $request = $this->sm->get('request');

        $routeMatch = $router->match($request);
        if (!is_null($routeMatch))
            echo $routeMatch->getMatchedRouteName();
    }
}

perhaps there's a cleaner, more ZF2ish way to do this...

Answer 1

Another solution without a new match

$routeMatch = $serviceLocator->get('Application')->getMvcEvent()->getRouteMatch();

echo $routeMatch->getMatchedRouteName();