Question

Is there a way to get the current action name from within the Controller.php init function ?

Thanks

Answer 1

In general, you can call $this->action->id within descendant of the CController class.
Or you can use Yii::app()->controller->action->id through whole application.

But the method init() was called before the controller started to execute (see http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/api/1.1/CController#init-detail)

As you can see here: http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/api/1.1/CWebApplication#runController-detail actionID will be passed to method run() only after init():

$controller->init();
$controller->run($actionID);