如何在wordpress中从php获取url的值？

Question

I want to get the value of url from php in wordpress. url: https://www.domain.com/category/cricket/

I want to get cricket value from url i tried by

<?php $value=$_GET['cat']; ?>

Above code worked fine when i set url to defult (https://www.domain.com/?cat=17) in wordpress but didn't worked when it is set to "pretty permalinks" (https://www.domain.com/category/cricket/).

How can i get the value of url in wordpress from php when it set to "pretty permalinks" (https://www.domain.com/category/cricket/)

Thank you in advance. :)

Answer 1

You can use get_query_var() to get the category ID, and then get_category() to get the category object:

if ( is_category() ) {
    $category = get_category( get_query_var('cat'), false );
    echo $category->slug;
}

Alternatively, you can use get_queried_object() to get the current category:

$category = $wp_query->get_queried_object();
echo $category->slug;