How to get current page ID from inside SS template

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Hi There,

I’ve been googling for a while and found nothing so I’m hoping someone here will have an idea.

I’m trying to get the current page id from inside a SS template. Essentially I’m looking for a function or variable to place inside the <% %> tags of the .ss file that will return the id of the page currently being viewed.

Thanks

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Hello @Philm, try $ID on the template, this will give the id of the current page where you at.

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Hi Jerome,

Thanks for your response. I have tried this but it just throws an error:
“Unexpected problem parsing template”

It’s probably worth noting that I’m working on a component that is added as an include to a page. Essentially what the component does it get a list of 3 related articles however the first of these related articles is always the same as the current article being viewed so I’m trying to exclude it.

Thanks

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Hi,

Just to clarify, you just need $ID in the template, not <% $ID %>

But, if you’re pulling in content from a method in your PHP, then it might be better to just put the logic in there, rather than the template (psuedo-code below):

public function getRelatedArticles() {
  return Article::get()->exclude([
    'ID' => $this->ID
  ]);
}

(obviously the logic in that would need to be made right for your application)

Then in your template, you can just do:

<% loop $RelatedArticles %>
 <h2>$Title</h2>
<% end_loop %>
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Depending on where you are in your template, e.g. inside a loop, $Up.ID takes the scope back to the previous level. https://docs.silverstripe.org/en/4/developer_guides/templates/syntax/

DorsetDigital is probably offering the better solution for you, but if you wanted to use an if/then statement in your template:

<% loop $RelatedArticles %>
<% if $ID != $Up.ID %>
... show article
<% end_if %>
<% end_loop %>
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To get the ID of the page being queried from outside the loop or before the global post object has been set, use get_queried_object_id()

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I’m fairly sure that’s not going to work… it’s a Wordpress function!