[wp-hackers] problem with $post->post_parent

[Brian Fidler]

got it. Thanks everyone!

brian


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On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Will Anderson <will at itsananderson.com>wrote:

> Inside the checkPostID function, you're using $post, but you never declare
> it as a global, so it will be null. Try this and see what happens
>
> function checkPostID() {
>   global $wp_query, $post; // global $post as well
>    $thePostID = $wp_query->post->ID;
>   $myParent = $post->post_parent;
>   echo "i am post ". $thePostID . " and my parent is " . $myParent;
> }
>
> If this code is being executed before the $post variable is populated, it
> will still not contain the post parent.
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