wordpress pagination get current page number from url

Question

I need to extract the value of \"page\" i.e 5 from this url - http://snypher.local/photos/page/5 What should I do to extract it in Wordpress? I am not able to get it from th

Answer 1

Found a nice solution and I'd like to share it here for I was looking for exactly the same thing!

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-current-page-number-for-paginated-posts

So it's like: