Question

I am new to programming and learning with WordPress.

the_title(); //outputs the title of the page 

I want to capture the title of the page into a string variable so I can manipulate it with strtolower and str_replace functions.

The only way I have gotten it to work is with output buffering.

ob_start(); the_title(); $result = ob_get_clean();  echo str_replace(' ','-',strtolower($result));  /*there has got to be an easier way.... i dont fully understand why */  str_replace(' ','-',strtolower(the_title()));  

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

If what you really are looking for is the wp_title function, the 2nd argument it takes is a boolean on whether or not it should display it or return it. Pass it false so it will return it to the var, then you can do this:

$mytitle = wp_title(null, false); 

Otherwise, your only option is to find the function you’re looking for and modify the source code.