Determine Current Controller in Use for Kohana

Question

What is the best way to determine which Controller class a Kohana application is presently using?

Examples:

• http://sitesite.com/ - _defaultControllerName_
• http://somesite.com/frontpage/articles - "frontpage"
• http://somesite.com/contact/ - "contact"

Answer 1

You can do this by using the Router library. By default, this library is located in /system/libraries/Router.php - go ahead and copy it into /application/libraries as is the standard practice for all libraries being used.

Now, from within your application you can get the controller value from the static Router class:

print Router::$controller; // outputs current Controller