# How to Get Current Route Name in Laravel?

By Bobby Iliev, 2020-11-08. https://bobbyiliev.com/post/how-to-get-current-route-name-in-laravel/

# Introduction

[Laravel routes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEU3akZbZAM) allow you to map your URLs to specific functionality, for example, a method in a controller or directly to a specific Blade view. For example, if you visit `yourdomain.com/contact`, Laravel will return the contact page of your website.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to get your current route name in your Laravel application!

# Prerequisites

Before you start, you would need to have a Laravel application up and running.

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# Get route name in Controller or Middleware

There are a few ways that you could get your Route's name in your Controller or Middleware.

You could use either the `Request` facade or the `Route` facade directly.

## Get route name using Route facade

To get your route's  name by using the `Route` facade, you could use the following:

* First include the `Route` facade to your controller:

```
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;
```

* And then use the following in your method:

```
    public function yourMethodHere(){
        $routeName = Route::currentRouteName();
	dd($routeName);
    }
```

Or if you prefer note to include the facade, you could use the following instead:

```
    public function yourMethodHere(){
        $routeName = \Route::currentRouteName();
	dd($routeName);
    }
```

## Get route name using Request facade

Quite similar to using the `Route` facade, when using the `Request` facade you can get your current route's name by using the following:

```
    public function yourMethodHere(){
        $routeName = \Request::route()->getName();
        dd($routeName);
    }
```

# Get route name in Blade View

In some cases, you might want to check your current route name directly in your Blade view.

To do so, you could use the `Route` facade directly in your Blade view:

```
{{ Route::currentRouteName() }}
```

Or if you wanted to get your URI, you could also use the `request` function directly:

```
{{ request()->route()->uri }}
```

# Getting additional information about your route

In case that you wanted to get all of the information about the route you could call the `current()` method:

```
    public function yourMethodHere(){
        $routeInfo = \Route::current();
	dd($routeInfo);
    }
```

You would get the following information:

![Get Laravel Route Information](https://imgur.com/gYVY7x0.png)

You can then call specific properties like the `uri` for example:

```
    public function yourMethodHere(){
        $routeInfo = \Route::current()->url;
	dd($routeInfo);
    }
```

This would return only your URI!

# Conclusion

For more information on Laravel Routes, make sure to check this [video on how to add custom route files](https://devdojo.com/episode/laravel-custom-route-files)!

I strongly suggest checking out the official Laravel Documentation:

[https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/requests](https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/requests)

I hope that this helps!