get URL info for page titles

Hi all,

OK, hopefully this will make sense and someone can help me out!

I’ve got a URL https://www.mydomain.com/category/talks/
and https://www.mydomain.com/2010/07/29/

What I’d like to do is this:

If you click https://www.mydomain.com/category/talks/ then the H1 title tag shows Talks.

If you click https://www.mydomain.com/2010/07/29/ then the H1 title tag shows 29th July 2010

I tried

$pageURL='';
    $pageURL .= $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
    $filename = basename($pageURL);
    echo '<h1 class="listings_archive">'.$filename.'</h1>';

This works for talks but for the date link just shows 29. Is there a way around this?

Many thanks in advanced!