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1. nolageek
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   I'm trying to use post titles/slugs as image names in my templates. I looked through all of the tags, but I cant find one that outputs the title formatted as a url/slug. (No spaces, all lowercased, etc..)

   Is there a the_slug() tag?

2. adamh
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Use urlencode($title) where $title is the text to encode. If you also want it lowercase, use strtolower(urlencode($title))

   hope that helps, adam

3. pizdin_dim
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   You can use sanitize_title($title) which will get you a slug.

4. nolageek
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Could I use this in my template:

   <img src="/buttons/<?php sanitize_title($title); ?>.gif" />

5. nolageek
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Tried it, it's not returning anything.

   I'm putting it in a category-20 template, right before the call to the_content();

   
<div class="entry">

   <img src="/buttons/<?php sanitize_title($title); ?>.gif" />

   <?php the_content('Read the rest of this entry �'); ?>
</div>


6. pizdin_dim
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Try:

   <img src="/buttons/<?php echo sanitize_title($title); ?>.gif" />

   Assuming your variable $title contains a value.

7. Kafkaesqui
   Moderator
   Posted 6 years ago #

   "Assuming your variable $title contains a value."

   And if it doesn't:

   <img src="/buttons/<?php echo $post->post_name; ?>.gif" />

   This displays the already existing post slug, which is hiding out in the $post object.

8. pizdin_dim
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Even better!

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