Passing the_title variable or turning it into one

  • wpjunky

    (@wpjunky)


    17 years ago

    What I want to do is take the the_title and it turn it into $title so I can lowercase it and remove the spaces.

    I know how to do strtolower(), and the search and replace for the space, but I can’t figure out how to take the_title() and pass it as $title.

    ie: $title = the_title(); obviously doesn’t work.

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  • Kafkaesqui

    (@kafkaesqui)

    $title = get_the_title();

    -or-

    $title = the_title('', '', false);

    Just wanted to say, 6 months after the fact that this totally saved me from a mental breakdown today. After 1.5 hours of scouring this site I found this, thought I’d document what I was trying to do and what I did to fix it.

    First of all, I’m using WordPress as a CMS in this case, with no blog. Each page of the CMS uses a unique banner image, and I wanted to put this in my template to have it automated. Here’s what I originally started with:

    <img src="images/<?php the_title(); ?>.jpg" alt=" <?php the_title(); ?> " />

    which outputed:

    <img src="images/Contact Us.jpg" alt=" Contact Us " />

    This would work, but isn’t even close to being nice code, so I ended up going with:

    <img src="images/banners/<?php
$title = get_the_title();
$loweredTitle = strtolower($title);
echo str_replace(" ", "_", $loweredTitle);
?>.jpg" alt=" <?php the_title(); ?> " />

    which outputs:

    <img src="media/images/banners/contact_us.jpg" alt=" Contact Us " />

    Excellence! It turns out essentially how %postname% would, but because I had the option I used underscores (“_”) instead of dashes (“-“).

    Thanks Kaf, and hopefully this extended documentation will help someone in the future!

    it help a lot;
    thanks for sharing

    thanks Kafkaesqui, worked like a charm

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