[wp-hackers] $postnow?

[Mike Schinkel]

Hi Ryan,

Thanks for another suggestion but I just checked and $post is null too within the "admin_init" hook.  

See my reply to Ozh's suggestion of global $id for more details.

-Mike

On Sep 22, 2010, at 2:23 AM, Ryan Bilesky wrote:

> I use
> 
> global $post;
> echo $post->ID;
> 
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Mike Schinkel <mikeschinkel at newclarity.net
>> wrote:
> 
>> Here's another one that I've probably missed though not for lack of
>> looking, hoping you can help.
>> 
>> We've got $typenow to tell us what post_type we are currently acting on,
>> $pagenow to tell us what the current .PHP page is and $taxnow to tell what
>> taxonomy we are working with but as far as I can tell there's no equivalent
>> way to find the post ID we are currently working with.
>> 
>> I'm finding it very hard to write robust code that gets it right 100% of
>> the time because it appears it can be at least any one of the following and
>> it's hard to get all of the contexts completely right:
>> 
>> $_GET['post']
>> $_GET['post_id']
>> $_GET['page_id']
>> $_POST['page_id']
>> $_POST['page_ID']
>> 
>> And there may be other ways I've missed.  Am I overlooking something
>> obvious?  Is there some way to determine the $post->ID that I can depend on?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance.
>> 
>> -Mike
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