Joomla article page: code to check published or not

Question

I'm looking for php code in article page to check if the article is published or not.

I tried this one, but it false.

if($listing['Listing']['published']==1){ }

Could anyone give me some hint? Thanks a lot

PS: Joomla 1.7.3, JReviews 2.3(using Joomla default content structure)

Answer 1

Try this:

jimport('joomla.database.table');
$article_id = [place here the article Id];
$article =& JTable::getInstance("content");
$article->load($article_id);
echo $article->get("state");

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