Laravel 5 Class method for returning names of current controller (minus the string 'Controller'), and method (action) from current route.

RouteHelper.php

<?php namespace  App\Http;

use Illuminate\Routing\Route;

class RouteHelper {

    /**
     * Get and return names of current controller, minus the string 'Controller', and method (action) from current route.
     * To use, enter the following into your controller method:
     * list($controller, $action) = RouteHelper::controller_action($route);
     *
     * @param Route $route
     *
     * @return array
     */
    public static function controller_action(Route $route)
    {
        $action =$route->getActionName();
        $action = explode('\\', strtolower($action));
        $controller_and_action = explode('@', end($action));
        $controller_and_action[0] = substr_replace($controller_and_action[0], '', -10);

        return $controller_and_action;
    }

}

This method returns the (shortened) controller and action names to use as classes, etc. This is the simplest way I've found to do this thus far.