Another variable in the request scope is used quite often -- request.sapi.site. This variable is an instance of a ShadoCMS component: shadomx.sapi.site. This component contains a function called getPage(). This function returns a structure of information about a given page. For example, the title of the page, its description, UUID, language, owner etc. This can be used to programmatically retrieve information about any page.
The usage for request.sapi.site.getPage() is very simple:
<cfset stPageInfo = request.sapi.site.getPage()>
<cfdump var="#stPageInfo#">
Visit the section on Simple API (SAPI) for more.
request.getPageObject
In earlier versions of ShadoCMS, a variable called request.getPageObject was available to all pages. This variable contained a query that has the same information that is now provided by request.sapi.site.getPage(). This variable is still available for backward compatibility. But going forward, use request.sapi.site.getPage() for retrieving page-specific information.