[SOLVED] get page alias in UDT for use in admin page templat

[applejack]

I need to be able to get the page alias in a UDT which is used in admin in a page template. This to use the dropdown_from_udt in ECB module for which I am trying to pull data from certain content blocks from the same page which I can do if the alias is in the UDT. It isn't possible to pass a Smarty param to the UDT. I just don't know the api syntax for doing this.

I tried using $content_obj->Alias() but it doesn't work.

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$result = false;
$gCms = cmsms();
$contentops = $gCms->GetContentOperations();
$content_obj = $contentops->getContentObject();

$result = Array();
    
// $alias = "events-test"; THIS WORKS
$alias = $content_obj->Alias();

if( $alias != '' ) {
    $content = $contentops->LoadContentFromAlias($alias);
    if(is_object($content)) {
        for ($i=1;$i<=2;$i++) {
            $block = 'speaker_name_' . $i;
            $result[$content->GetPropertyValue($block)] = $content->GetPropertyValue($block);
        }    
      }    
    }
return $result;

[chandra]

The answer is simple - $content_obj does not exist in admin .

[applejack]

So in that case how to get the page alias or content id ?

[rotezecke]

does this work?

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$hm = cmsms()->GetHierarchyManager();
$node = $hm->getId();

[applejack]

Nope afraid not. Gives a blank screen when trying to edit the page.

[velden]

Would this work:

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$_GET['content_id'];

[applejack]

I solved this using GET which I tried before but had a syntax error, Doh!!

It now uses the content id not the alias.

This very useful as it enables you to cross reference content within a page. E.G. This is for a page for conference programme where they have a number of speakers which need to show their details and assign a number of speakers to different time slots which this allows me to do.

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$result = false;
$gCms = cmsms();
$contentops = $gCms->GetContentOperations();
$content_obj = $contentops->getContentObject();

$result = Array();
$page_id = htmlspecialchars($_GET['content_id']);

if($page_id != '') {
    $content = $contentops->LoadContentFromID($page_id);
    if(is_object($content)) {
        for ($i=1;$i<=2;$i++) {
            $block = 'speaker_name_' . $i;
            $result[$content->GetPropertyValue($block)] = $content->GetPropertyValue($block);
        }    
      }    
    }
return $result;

P.S. Thanks Velden I was in the middle of posting this when you replied.