How To Get Current Page Parameters And Properties of Joomla 3.1

Question

I want to create a module for joomla 3.1 for my own site. I need to know how to get current category id, parent category id, current page id. Please some one tell me how to do that. Thanks for your advance

Answer 1

going from memory here, please bear with some inaccuracies but it should be enough to get you going.

$input = JFactory::getApplication()->input;

// should be article, categories, featured, blog...
$view = $input->get('view'); 

// if it's a category view, this will be the category id, else the article id
$id = $input->getInt('id'); 

// in an article view, this will be the cat id.
$catid = $input->getInt('catid'); 

// this is the menu item id i.e. what you call page id I guess.
$Itemid = $input->getInt('Itemid');