How To Get Controller, Module, Action and Router name in Magento.?

Get Controller, Module, Action and Router name:-

Magento has many numbers of the Controller, Module, Action & Router, sometimes  it might difficult to get the current name of the Controller, Module, Action & Router name in Magento. With this post we are going to describe how to fetch the correct information regarding controller name, action name, router name and module name from template, class files or anywhere in Magento.

Find Controller, Module, Action & Router Name In Template Files:

Example 1 : Get Controller Name In Template File

$this->getRequest()->getControllerName(); // get controller name

Example 2 : Get Action Name In Template Files

$this->getRequest()->getActionName(); //get Action name, i.e. the function inside the controller

Example 3 : Get Router Name In Template Files

$this->getRequest()->getRouteName(); // get router name

Example 4 : Get Module Name In Template Files:

$this->getRequest()->getModuleName(); //get module name

Example 5 : Get namespace & Module Name

$this->getRequest()->getControllerModule();//for example, if you are in checkout page ,then
this will return Mage_Checkout.

Find Controller, Module, Action & Router Name In Class Files:

Example 6 : Get Controller Name In Class Files

Mage::app()->getRequest()->getControllerName(); //get controller name

Example 7 : Get Action Name In Class Files

Mage::app()->getRequest()->getActionName(); //get Action name, i.e. the function inside the 
controller

Example 8 : Get Router Name In Class Files

Mage::app()->getRequest()->getRouteName();//get router name

Example 9 : Get Module Name In Class Files

Mage::app()->getRequest()->getModuleName(); //get module name

You can find all requests with using print_r.

echo "<pre>"; print_r(Mage::app()->getRequest());