Laravel - How to Get Current Previous URL in Controller or View

Hello today short tutorial is how to get the current URL which live on your browser in Laravel. In some case you want to retrieve the URL link from browser bar which mean current URL. In this article you will see how to get current URL in different ways by following sample example which you can apply in Laravel 6, Laravel 7, Laravel 8, Laravel 9

Laravel support helper class and URL facade which we will use to get current URL anywhere. Let's check the below examples:

Example #1 - Get Current URL

Using current() with Helper

$currentURL = url()->current();
dd($currentURL);

Example #2 - Get Current URL

Using full() with Helper (include query string)

$currentURL = url()->full();  
dd($currentURL);

Example #3 - Get Current URL

Using current() with Facade

$currentURL = URL::current();   
dd($currentURL);

Example #4 - Get Current URL

Using full() with Facade (include query string)

$currentURL = URL::full();
dd($currentURL);

Example #5 - Get Current URL

Using Request

$currentURL = Request::url();
dd($currentURL);

Example #6 - Get Current Route

$route = Route::current()->getName();
dd($route);

Example #7 - Get Previous URL

$url = url()->previous();
dd($url);

Hope these examples help you. Have a nice day!!

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