How to get the category name from category slug in wordpress?

Question

I have the link like below :

http://localhost/rajab/product-category/pvc-hose/

the term "pvc-hose" is the category slug. I wanted to derive the category name from this slug name. I wanted to display the category name becaus the slug name is having the "-" in between.I dont want this when i am displaying the category slug. How to remove this ?

Answer 1

Use get_category_by_slug. E.g.

<?php
$catObj = get_category_by_slug('category-slug'); 
$catName = $catObj->name;
?>