Drupal: How to retrieve parent page's $node variable in a block using module_invoke()?

Question

Hi,

I'm using module_invoke() to include a block and I need in this block to read a value contained in my parent content type page. So how can I get the $node variable in my block from the view?

Code I'm using:

<?php
    $block = module_invoke('my_blocks', 'block', 'view', 7);
    print $block['content'];
?>

Now I need to access $node in "my_blocks" and the variable is empty. What can I do to get it?

Thanks a lot for any help!

Regards

Answer 1

I think the context module or chaos tools can help with that, but here's how I did the same thing recently:

function myModule_get_current_node() {
    $path_arr = explode('/', $_GET['q']);
    if ($path_arr[0] == 'node') $result = node_load($path_arr[1]);
    else $result = null;
    return $result;
}