tadramgo

Okay, so I’ve done some more hours and hours of digging to find something likely to work:

<?php

$query = “pagename=”;
$query .= $page_slug;

$pageArray = query_posts($query); //retrieves the about $query page only
setup_postdata($pageArray);
$PageID = $pageArray[0]->ID;
echo $about_PageID;

?>

This seems fine to me, basically I should end up with the page ID, from which I can grab any content I want. Or indeed I could grab the content straight out of pageArray.

However when this is placed within The Loop it produces a infinite loop. Which is a bummer.

Any insights?

Tom

Globals! I completely forgot about them… isn’t global variables usually turned off in php? Or does defining them as you did override the basic php settings?

I got around all this by using include() rather than wp_sidebar etc…

I’ve been trying to solve the problem by defining values in the index.php and then relying on them to indicate to the sidebar that I want to show menu items…

eg in index.php

if (condition) {
$useMenu = 1;
}

in sidebar.php

if ($useMenu=1;) {
show sidebar
}

however for some reasons these variables aren’t available from one page to another using the wordpress “get_sidebar()” function. After testing for a while this is what I’ve concluded… is there anyway to make variables global, or pass variables to the function?

I know this is a bit of a hacky solution, but if it works…

cheers,
tom