Get current page number of splitted article

Question

I am trying to find a way to get the current page number of an article that has been splitted into several pages with the use of:

<!-- nextpage -->

There is an example that can be found here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags#Testing_for_paginated_Pages

But this doesn't work for me – it always returns 0:

$paged = $wp_query->get( 'paged' );
echo $paged;

Any idea? Thank you!

Answer 1

For multi-page posts:

• The $page global variable returns the current page of a multi-page post.
• The $numpages global variable returns the total number of pages in a multi-page post.

For paginated archive index pages:

• The $paged global variable returns the current page number of a paginated archive index.

To use any of these variables, simply globalize them first:

global $page;

echo 'The current page number of this post is ' . $page . '.';

Answer 2

There you go:

$queryVars = $wp_query->query_vars;
    $pageNum = ($queryVars[page]);

    if($pageNum) { 
        echo "Page n°" . $pageNum; 
    } else { 
        echo "Page n°1";
    }

Tested with wp 3.2 with basic permalinks and custom.

Edit: Didn't see Chip Bennett's answer wich is smaller.