Get category name from product detail page

Question

I have an URL from which I would like to get the categories. I have this: /hats/trucker-hats/hat1.html/ which is a product detail page.

I need to retrieve the categories, which are "hats" and "trucker-hats". I tried using $product->getCategoryIds() and looked through the IDs, the categories are there, but never at the same index, is there a way to retrieve these?

Thanks

Answer 1

You can get categories from the breadcrumbs

$title = array();
$path  = Mage::helper('catalog')->getBreadcrumbPath();
foreach ($path as $breadcrumb) {
    $title[] = $breadcrumb['label'];
}

Answer 2

To get a consistent ordering you can use asort().