# How to get controller name in view page?

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**Created:** [January 20, 2017, 5:04am UTC](https://discourse.cakephp.org/t/how-to-get-controller-name-in-view-page/1892 "2017-01-20T05:04:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![SATHISH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@SATHISH](https://discourse.cakephp.org/u/SATHISH)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 5:04am UTC](https://discourse.cakephp.org/t/how-to-get-controller-name-in-view-page/1892/1 "2017-01-20T05:04:23Z")

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Hi,  
I am using cakephp 3. How to get controller name in my view page?

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**Author:** ![Graziel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@Graziel](https://discourse.cakephp.org/u/Graziel)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 6:11am UTC](https://discourse.cakephp.org/t/how-to-get-controller-name-in-view-page/1892/2 "2017-01-20T06:11:11Z")

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[https://book.cakephp.org/3.0/en/controllers/request-response.html#request-parameters](https://book.cakephp.org/3.0/en/controllers/request-response.html#request-parameters)

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**Author:** ![AdrianoMoura](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.cakephp.org/adrianomoura/32/284_2.png) [@AdrianoMoura](https://discourse.cakephp.org/u/AdrianoMoura)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 11:50am UTC](https://discourse.cakephp.org/t/how-to-get-controller-name-in-view-page/1892/3 "2017-01-20T11:50:07Z")

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try …

pr($this-\>request-\>params[‘controller’]);

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**Author:** ![shubhrajyoti](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.cakephp.org/shubhrajyoti/32/544_2.png) [@shubhrajyoti](https://discourse.cakephp.org/u/shubhrajyoti)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 5:06am UTC](https://discourse.cakephp.org/t/how-to-get-controller-name-in-view-page/1892/4 "2017-01-21T05:06:34Z")

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$this-\>request-\>params[‘controller’]

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**Author:** ![mcek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8c91f0/32.png) [@mcek](https://discourse.cakephp.org/u/mcek)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 1:15pm UTC](https://discourse.cakephp.org/t/how-to-get-controller-name-in-view-page/1892/5 "2017-01-25T13:15:28Z")

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Try this in controller:  
debug($this-\>request-\>controller);