How to get complete current url for Cakephp

Question

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

Answer 1

for CakePHP 3.x You can use UrlHelper:

$this->Url->build(null, true) // output http://somedomain.com/app-name/controller/action/params

$this->Url->build() // output /controller/action/params

Or you can use PaginatorHelper (in case you want to use it in javascript or ...):

$this->Paginator->generateUrl() // returns a full pagination URL without hostname

$this->Paginator->generateUrl([],null,true) // returns a full pagination URL with hostname

Answer 2

I use $this->here for the path, to get the whole URL you'll have to do as Juhana said and use the $_SERVER variables. There's no need to use a Cake function for this.

Answer 3

for CakePHP 3:

$this->Url->build(null, true) // full URL with hostname

$this->Url->build(null) // /controller/action/params

Answer 4

for cakephp3+:

$url = $this->request->scheme().'://'.$this->request->domain().$this->request->here(false);

will get eg: http://bgq.dev/home/index?t44=333

Answer 5

I prefer this, because if I don't mention "request" word, my IDE gives warning.

<?php echo $this->request->here; ?>

API Document: class-CakeRequest

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Edit: To clarify all options

Current URL: http://example.com/en/controller/action/?query=12

// Router::url(null, true)
http://example.com/en/controller/action/

// Router::url(null, false)
/en/controller/action/

// $this->request->here
/en/controller/action/

// $this->request->here()
/en/controller/action/?query=12

// $this->request->here(false)
/en/controller/action/?query=12

// $this->request->url
en/controller/action

// $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]
/en/controller/action/?query=12

// strtok($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"],'?');
/en/controller/action/

Answer 6

Getting current URL for CakePHP 3.x ?

In your layout :

<?php 
    $here = $this->request->here();
    $canonical = $this->Url->build($here, true);
?>

You will get the full URL of the current page including query string parameters.

e.g. http://website.example/controller/action?param=value

You can use it in a meta tag canonical if you need to do some SEO.

<link rel="canonical" href="<?= $canonical; ?>">