wordpress pagination get current page number from url

Question

I need to extract the value of \"page\" i.e 5 from this url - http://snypher.local/photos/page/5 What should I do to extract it in Wordpress? I am not able to get it from th

Answer 1

function get_url_var($name)
{
    $strURL = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
    $arrVals = explode("/",$strURL);
    $found = 0;
    foreach ($arrVals as $index => $value) 
    {
        if($value == $name) $found = $index;
    }
    $place = $found + 1;
    return $arrVals[$place];
}

$page = get_url_var('page');

I have used this function to get the value of the variable page from the url.