Getting Current Controller ID in Yii

php templates yii yii-components
Netorica picture Netorica · Mar 6, 2012 · Viewed 25k times · Source

I want to get the current controller name that handles the current action. but the in my case I will look for the current controller in my main.php in my layout files.

this is my small view of my directory structure to give you an idea where is my layout files and the file where i will put my codes in searching of my controller name

  • /protected
  • /themes
    • /mylayout
      • /layouts
        • main.php
        • column1.php
        • column2.php
      • /site
        • index.php

Is this possible? im trying the following codes but i failed to get my current controller name...

echo Yii::app()->controller->getId;
echo Yii:app()->getController->id;
echo Yii:app()->controller->uniqueID;

thanks

Answer

schmunk picture schmunk · Mar 6, 2012

Like this

Yii::app()->controller->id

or

Yii::app()->getController()->getId()

http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/api/1.1/CApplication#getController-detail

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