Trouble with get_next_post() get_previous_post() returning null

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I’m using wp as an engine to put blog features in an existing site. I have a place in the blog page where I load wp-load.php. I want to get the next and previous posts, but when I load a post from from wpdb, both get_next_post() and get_previous_post() both return NULL. What do I need to do to get those functions to return the proper values?

Edit Here’s the code:

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if ( isset($_GET['article_id']) && is_numeric($_GET['article_id']) ) {

    $id = $_GET['article_id'];
    $objPost = get_post($id);

    new dBug(get_next_post());
    new dBug(get_previous_post());

}

dBug is a pretty-printing class. Currently it gives two NULLs. I tried this: 

if ( isset($_GET['article_id']) && is_numeric($_GET['article_id']) ) {

    $id = $_GET['article_id'];
    $objPost = get_post($id);
    setup_postdata($objPost);
    new dBug(get_next_post());
    new dBug(get_previous_post());

}
but no luck. Still NULL.

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  1. You have to call setup_postdata($post).

    get_next_post() and get_previous_post() depend on calls to a number of properties in the global $post variable which is populated by calling setup_postdata($post) or the_post(). If $post is empty it returns null.