Index: sections.module
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RCS file: /cvs/drupal-contrib/contributions/modules/sections/sections.module,v
retrieving revision 1.16.2.8
diff -u -p -r1.16.2.8 sections.module
--- sections.module	13 Oct 2007 20:47:24 -0000	1.16.2.8
+++ sections.module	14 Feb 2008 23:26:25 -0000
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ function sections_in_section($section = 
   }
   else {
     // caller wants to know in which section she is.
-    $res = db_query("SELECT path, status, visibility, theme, weight FROM {sections_data} WHERE status=1 ORDER BY weight");
+    $res = db_query("SELECT name, path, status, visibility, theme, weight FROM {sections_data} WHERE status=1 ORDER BY weight");
     while ($row = db_fetch_object($res)) {
       if ($row->visibility == 1) {
         // This bizarre bit of magic courtesy of block.module
@@ -349,3 +349,49 @@ function sections_in_section($section = 
   }
   return $output;
 }
+
+
+/**
+ * API to allow you to get a text string back with the
+ * name of the current section, or returns TRUE/FALSE if 
+ * the section name passed in is the current section
+ * 
+ * This is the functionality I thought sections_insection should
+ * provide, rather than returning an object with everything but the
+ * section name. I wrote this function leveraging rather than rewriting 
+ * sections_in_section.
+ *
+ * @param
+ *  Optional $section_to_match a string containing the section name
+ *  you want to test against
+ *
+ * @return
+ *   Depends on the parameter.
+ *   If you do not give $section, it will return the section name, if found.
+ *   If you give $section, it will return TRUE if you are in that section
+ *   Otherwise it will return FALSE
+ */
+function sections_check_section($section_to_match = NULL){
+	
+  //get section object
+  $section_row = sections_in_section();
+	
+  //get section from object
+  $section = $section_row->name;
+	
+  if (is_string($section_to_match)) {
+    // caller wants to know if shes in the section she provided.
+    if($section == $section_to_match) {
+      $return_value = TRUE;
+    }
+    else {
+      $return_value = FALSE;
+    }
+  } 
+  else {
+  	//else return the section name
+  	$return_value = $section;
+  }
+  
+  return $return_value;
+}