How to get the current URL inside @if statement in Laravel

Laravel offers a lot of useful methods to help developers to speed up their work. So in this post, I'll show you how you can get the current URL inside any view or controller class.

Methods to get the current URL

request()->url()
\Request::url()
url()->current()
Request::path()

You can use any of the above method to get the current URL in your Laravel application.

Lets suppose you want to add an active class inside the menu list based on the URL. So here is how you can do it.

<li class="{{(request()->url()) === 'dashboard' ? 'active' : ''}}">Dashboard</li>

Also, you can achieve the above functionality by using

<li class="{{(\Request::url()) === 'dashboard' ? 'active' : ''}}">Dashboard</li>

You can also use the above method to see if the URL matches a pattern or not by using the below code.

if (Request::is('admin/*'))
{
    // code
}

This statement will be true if the first parameter of the URL starts with admin word.

Getting a route by name in laravel

If you want to match the current URL by route name then you can easily do this in laravel by using the below code.

@if(Route::current()->getName() == 'dashboard')
    Hello This is dashboard
@endif