CakePHP: Access Current Controller, Action and Parameters

Hi guys, today I'm going to show you how to access or get CakePHP's current page controller, action and parameters. I found this useful when high lighting certain elements of a page for example are tabs, sidebars, etc. that tells the user what part of the system or website they are currently in.

For instance we will have the following URL:

          http://somedomain.com/users/edit/27/

Based on that URL, our controller is users. To access it we will have:

          $current_controller = $this->params['controller']; 

Our action is edit and we will access it this way:

          $current_action =  $this->action;

Our first parameter is 27, which is the ID of the record to be edited. We can access it by doing:

          $user_id =  $this->params['pass'][0];

In case that we have second parameter, we have to access it this way:

          $second_parameter =  $this->params['pass'][1]; 

For the third parameter:

          $third_parameter =  $this->params['pass'][2];  

and so on...

You can do these codes either in your controller or view files.

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