Getting slug from url in wordpress

Question

How can i get slug from url in wordpress. For example my url is https://ww.test.com/test-page/test-post/data-to-get how can i get data-to-get from url in wordpress. I tried following code

global $wp;
$current_url = home_url( add_query_arg( array(), $wp->request ) );

what is wrong here

Answer 1

There is a built-in function for that in wordpress: url_to_postid.

<?php
global $wp;
$current_url = $wp->request;
$post_id = url_to_postid($current_url);
$slug = get_post_field( 'post_name', $post_id );
echo $slug;