How to know the current route on Laravel 4?

Question

In Laravel 5, we can take the current route (I mean the class instance) using the class Illuminate\Http\Request, through the method route.

Thus:

 public function handle(Request $request)
 {
       $rota = $request->route();
 }

What about Laravel 4? How can I do this?

I need to know at a certain point what current route is being requested.

For example:

  App::before(function ($request)
  {
      $rota = /** Quero descobrir como pegar a rota atual aqui **/
  });

Answer 1

Very good, Mr @Wallacemaxters! That’s very simple.

Just use the method Route::getCurrentRoute().

It is first important to remember that this will only work in filters and in the App::after. In the App::before will not work, because by logic, the route has not yet been processed, so that the instance is returned by Laravel.

Here comes an example:

 Route::filter('auth', function ()
 {
       dd(Route::getCurrentRoute()->getName());
 });

Answer 2

Route::getCurrentRoute()->getName()

The cool thing is that it also works in other versions (the ones bigger than the 4) of Laravel