Determine the current controller to use for Kohana

Question

What is the best way to determine which controller class is using the Kohana application?

Examples:

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

Answer 1

For instances of Kohana 2, the following applies:

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

Now from your application you can get the controller value from the static router class:

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

Documentation

Answer 2

Kohana 3.x Request:

echo Request::$current->controller();