[solved] Slug as string

I just wanted to share the solution to a problem that occurred to me and obviously many others. While searching the forums for a way to post the slug in my templates all I found at first was the suggestion to use the post title and run a sanitize function on it. Unfortunately that’s not giving you the actual slug, only if you happened to name both identically. Digging a little in older posts I found something that was nearly what I was searching for.

Here is a function that gives you the actual slug:

function the_slug() {
	$post_data = get_post($post->ID, ARRAY_A);
	$slug = $post_data['post_name'];
	return $slug;
}

Put the above code in your templates function.php, then you can use:

<?php echo the_slug(); ?>

in your template to get the slug.

Hope this helps.