Get page permalink and title outside the loop in wordpress

Question

Hello,

How to Get page permalink and title outside the loop in wordpress.

I have a function like

function get_post_info(){
  $post;
  $permalink = get_permalink($post->ID);
  $title = get_the_title($post->ID);
  return $post_info('url' => $permalink, 'title' => $title);
}

when this function called within the loop, it returns the post's title and url.

When it is called outside the loop. It is not returning the current page's title and url. When called in home page it should return the home page's title and url

How to get like this ? instead this function returns the latest posts title and url

Answer 1

After research i found the ans myself

wp_title() will return the page title and

$url = (!empty($_SERVER['HTTPS'])) ? "https://".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] : "http://".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; to return the page url

Answer 2

You're opening yourself up to a possible XSS attack by printing an unescaped REQUEST_URI.

Your function is fine, you're just missing the global keyword. Change $post; to global $post;, and you're sailing!