Joomla plugin : how to get article title and article id

Question

I have developed on simple plugin in Joomla 1.6 I stuck at : How to get article title and article url.

I am getting no output if tried to print below statement:

echo $article->title;
echo $article->id;

I have written this in php file, not used MVC architecture. Is there any other settings need to do in Joomla admin side ?

Please suggest your pointers for extracting article title and article url.

Thanks in advance!

Pravin

To check if the code is currently displaying an article, make sure `JRequest::getCmd('view', '')` returns `"article"`. — Flimm, Apr 21 '16 at 09:55

score 14 · Answer 1 · answered May 19 '11 at 10:05

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In order to get the article ID you have to write the following:

echo JRequest::getVar('id');

For the title, you just take the id you got, load the article object

$blabla = $article->load(ID);
echo $blabla->get('title');

answered May 19 '11 at 10:05

Asaf

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i tried : public function onContentPrepare($context,&$article, &$params, $limitstart) { echo JRequest::getVar('id'); } Still I am not getting id...is this write ? – pravin May 19 '11 at 10:11

score 9 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 09 '14 at 13:50

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It seems JRequest is deprecated in 2.5 & 3.x as indicated in the Deprecated Elements list.

I would rather use the following:

$article_id = JFactory::getApplication()->input->get('id');

answered Sep 09 '14 at 13:50

Anriëtte Myburgh

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score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 10 '12 at 12:18

i tried :

public function onContentPrepare($context,&$article, &$params, $limitstart) {
 echo JRequest::getVar('id');
}

Still I am not getting the id. Is this right?

The article is loaded in your second argument ($article). Being on this event (onContentPrepare), the only property you can access is $article->text.

For suiting your purpose (getting the article id and title) you will want to use another event, called "onContentBeforeDisplay".

public function onContentBeforeDisplay($context, &$article, &$params, $limitstart)

Here you have (again) the article passed through the second argument, but now you have access to properties like $article->id, $article->title and many others.

For future references on content events, take a look at the file "plugins\content\example\example.php"

score -3 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 05 '13 at 06:07

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You can use for getting active article title like this

$menu =& Jsite::getMenu(); echo $menu->getActive()->title;

may this help.

answered Jun 05 '13 at 06:07

Jigar Patel

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That gets the current menu title. – computrius Dec 19 '13 at 18:19

score -5 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 08 '12 at 21:16

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To get Joomla article id use this...

<?php echo JRequest::getVar('Itemid'); ?>

In the previous answer someone used id instead of Itemid. Hope this helps!

answered Aug 08 '12 at 21:16

ybi

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Itemid is used for menu not for article. – Irfan Oct 05 '12 at 14:43

Joomla plugin : how to get article title and article id

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