How to get complete current url for Cakephp

Question

How do you echo out current URL in Cake\'s view?

Answer 1

The Cake way for 1.3 is to use Router::reverse:

Link to documentation

$url = Router::reverse($this->params)
echo $url;

yields

/Full/Path/From/Root/MyController/MyAction/passed1/named_param:bob/?param1=true¶m2=27