To get parent_id of a child-page ?

[Trangsene]

Hello I try do do a simple thing, to get the parent_id of a child-page.
I've installed CGSimpleSmarty which permits me to get the parent's alias. So it's quite what I needed.

But I was wandering, is there a quick smarty syntax to get the parent_id of a child-page
Something like (not working) :

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global $gCms;
$thispage = "";
$thispage = $gCms->variables['parent_id'];
echo "<p>Parent ID : ".$thispage."</p>";

Or I have to go through an SQL request using the content_id of the child-page in order to get the parent_id ?

[Augustas]

I think there is no such quick way to do it.
Use cgsimplesmarty to get Parent Alias, and once you have it - make simple SQL query to the Content table to get the ID of the page whose Alias you already know.