Yii CHttpRequest

CHttpRequest is equal to ‘$_SERVER’. we are using ‘$_SERVER’ variable to get the details of request, scripts, headers etc. We can get this information using CHttpRequest class. We can access the CHttpRequest via Yii::app()->request. It will return browser accept types, baseurl, csrftoken, csrftoken name, host name, request type [POST, AJAX, GET, PUT, DELETE], request Uri, url, url Referrer, user Agent, user Host Address and more

Note: sitepath is “http://127.0.0.1/httprequest”

Yii::app()->request->acceptTypes

accetTypes is used to get the browser accept types.
Return Type: String

Example

echo Yii::app()->request->acceptTypes

Output

text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8

Yii::app()->request->baseUrl

baseUrl will return the relative url of application
Return Type: String

Example

<?php
echo Yii::app()->request->baseUrl;
Yii::app()->request->setBaseUrl('yiiframework');
echo "
";
echo Yii::app()->request->getBaseUrl();
?>

Output

/httprequest
yiiframework

Yii::app()->request->csrfToken

This function return the random token to validate Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Return Type: String

Example

echo Yii::app()->request->csrfToken;

Output

e7376eb9d043f4c819a7f31b16397840b1d5adce

Yii::app()->request->csrfTokenName

Name of the csrfToken to prevent CSRF
Return Type: String

Example

echo Yii::app()->request->csrfTokenName;

Output

YII_CSRF_TOKEN

Yii::app()->request->hostInfo

It will return the host part of yii application
Return Type: String

Example

echo Yii::app()->request->hostInfo;

Output

http://127.0.0.1

Yii::app()->request->isAjaxRequest

It will return true If the request is happened using ajax Request. Using this we can restict the request for actions.
Return Type: boolean

Example

class SiteController extends Controller{
    public function actionDelete($id){
        if(Yii::app()->request->isAjaxRequest){
            // request via ajax    
        }else{
            // it is not ajax request 
        }            
    }
}

Yii::app()->request->isDeleteRequest

It is used to find the ‘DELETE’ request.
Return Type: boolean

Example

class SiteController extends Controller{
    public function actionDelete($id){
        if(Yii::app()->request->isDeleteRequest){
            // DELETE Request
        }else{
            // it is not DELETE request 
        }            
    }
}

Yii::app()->request->isFlashRequest

To find flash and flex request, we can use this.
Return Type: boolean

Example

class SiteController extends Controller{
    public function actionDelete($id){
        if(Yii::app()->request->isFlashRequest){
            // DELETE Request
        }else{
            // it is not DELETE request 
        }            
    }
}

Yii::app()->request->isPostRequest

To find the POST request, we can use this method.
Return Type: boolean

Example

class SiteController extends Controller{
    public function actionUpdate($id){
        if(Yii::app()->request->isPostRequest	){
            // DELETE Request
        }else{
            // it is not DELETE request 
        }            
    }
}

Yii::app()->request->isPutRequest

To find the PUT request, we can use this method.
Return Type: boolean

Example

class SiteController extends Controller{
    public function actionUpdate($id){
        if(Yii::app()->request->isPutRequest	){
            // DELETE Request
        }else{
            // it is not DELETE request 
        }            
    }
}

Yii::app()->request->requestUri

Currently requested url or current page url
Return Type: String

Example

echo Yii::app()->request->requestUri;

Output

/httprequest/index.php?r=site/index

Yii::app()->request->url

Currently requested url or current page url
Return Type: String

Example

echo Yii::app()->request->url;

Output

/httprequest/index.php?r=site/index

Yii::app()->request->urlReferrer

Return the referrer url. Using this we can get previous page url. It will return if not set
Return Type: String

Example

echo Yii::app()->request->urlReferrer;

Output

http://127.0.0.1/httprequest/index.php?r=site/login

Yii::app()->request->userAgent

Return the referrer url. Using this we can get previous page url. It will return if not set
Return Type: String

Example

echo Yii::app()->request->userAgent;

Output

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/27.0.1453.116 Safari/537.36

Yii::app()->request->userHostAddress

return the user ip address
Return Type: String

Example

echo Yii::app()->request->userHostAddress;

Output

127.0.0.1

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