Parent for a single (single.php)

Question

Is it posible to get the parent ID of an single page.... I mean not a Page I mean an is_single()... page.

I have a page witch contains some custom posts and when I click on one of these i came to the single page of these entree. I would like to get the permalink of the parent page, the page i come from.

Answer 1

For a hierarchical post type, you can use $post->post_parent and get_permalink(), perhaps like so:

<?php
global $post;
$parent_permalink = get_permalink( $post->post_parent );
?>
<a href="<?php echo $parent_permalink; ?>">Parent Post</a>