[drupal-support] $node not always available

[Gerhard Killesreiter]

On Tue, 3 May 2005, Maykel Moya wrote:

> I recently asked for a way to know the current viewed node, someone
> point me to global $node. The problem is that the variable is
> randomly available, sometimes it have the correct content, sometimes
> is empty.
>
> This is probably a bug of Drupal core. I'm using CVS HEAD.

No, this is by design. $node is not a global variable.

> I'm thinking using global $_menu['local tasks'] and do some tricky
> parsing to find out the current viewed node.

You can parse the url instead (arg(0) == 'node' && is_numeric(arg(1))).

Cheers,
	Gerhard