By herbivorous on

I'm working in Xtemplate designing a custom block. I want to display "related content", so I need the Node ID# so I know what content is related. My code so far works, except that I can't figure out how to access the nid! $node->nid and for that matter $node are empty, global $node; doesn't seem to help, nor using $GLOBALS["$node"]. It seems like there must be a simple answer that I'm too new to PHP and Drupal to know when I've stumbled across it.

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herbivorous commented

This may be bad Drupal, bad PHP, and simply bad form, but I added these two lines to index.php

global $mynid;
$mynid = arg(2);

As 14 and 15, I think, with a comment before to indicate that I'd monkeyed. This allows me to pass the node or taxonomy ID on to my custom block, which then uses taxonomy_node_get_terms_by_vocabulary to generate a list of stories from the same author, within the same research project, and/or on the same "hot topic" (the selection of boxes is contingent on which of the vocabularies is present, but that's another story.)

Hmm, I wonder if simply "arg(2)" would have worked . . .

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herbivorous commented

I was able to pull the NID from arg(2)

$mynid = arg(2);

in my custom block code, allowing me to remove my index.php hack.

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Wang123-1 commented

Herbivorous, I've been trying to do the same thing. Can you share the code you developed? I'm trying to display blocks when nodes belonging to a particular taxonomy item are called. I'd be much obliged if you could share what you created.

If you're willing, email to norden AATT idaalliance DDOOTT org. Thanks.

- W

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herbivorous commented

It is here