Laravel: How to Get Current Route Name? (v5 & v6)

Problem

Before I used to take the following code in order to retrieve the current route name. Wondering if that changed in Laravel 5 or 6 ?

How can I do it in Laravel v5 and Laravel v6?

Solution

You can probably start with this

or if that doesn’t work, here is another option

Laravel v5.2

Or if you need the action name

Laravel 5.2 route documentation

Retrieving The Request URI

The path method returns the request’s URI. So, if the incoming request is targeted at https://laravel-recipes.com/foo/bar, the path method will return foo/bar:

The is method allows you to verify that the incoming request URI matches a given pattern. You may use the * character as a wildcard when utilizing this method:

To get the full URL, not just the path info, you may use the url method on the request instance:

Laravel v5.3 … v5.8

Laravel 5.3 route documentation

Laravel v6.x

** Current as of Nov 11th 2019 – version 6.5 **

Laravel 6.x route documentation

There is an option to use request to get route