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function for determining the section ID of a given page. Good to include in a templatetools.php file inside of a template to set up some custom conditional logic

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  1. function getSection($iId) {
  2. /** function for determining the section ID of a given page, referenced from:
  3. * http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=466&t=302292
  4. */
  5.  
  6.   $database = &JFactory::getDBO();
  7.   if(JRequest::getVar( 'view', 0) == "section"){
  8.     return JRequest::getVar( 'id', 0);
  9.   }else if(Jrequest::getVar( 'view', 0) == "category"){
  10.     $sql = "SELECT section FROM #__categories WHERE id = '$iId'";
  11.     $database->setQuery( $sql );
  12.     $row=$database->loadResult();
  13.     return $row;
  14.   }else if(Jrequest::getVar('view', 0) == "article"){
  15.     $temp=explode(":",JRequest::getVar('id',0));
  16.     $sql = "SELECT sectionid FROM #__content WHERE id = ".$temp[0];
  17.     $database->setQuery( $sql );
  18.     $row=$database->loadResult();
  19.     return $row;
  20.   }
  21. }
  22. $section_id=getSection(JRequest::getVar('id',0));
  23.  
  24. if (JRequest::getVar('option') == 'com_glossary') {
  25.     $section_id = '10';
  26. }

URL: http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=466&t=302292

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