Can someone tell me what the if statement would look like to check if the current page is the homepage?

I am using a conditional to display some content and I don’t want to display it on the homepage.

Thanks Much!

Jesse

The home page can be accessed via different URLs…

http://www.site.com/ ...or… http://www.site.com/index.php/
http://www.site.com/index.php/templateGroup/template/

So, you need to account for the variations…

{if segment_1 == “”}
{if segment_1 == “templateGroup” AND segment_2 == “template”}

You can probably combine them…

{if segment_1 == “”} OR segment_1 == “templateGroup” AND segment_2 == “template”}

Thanks PXLated,

I just checked to see if segment_1 was empty and redirected all my links to {homepage} so I don’t use any template groups in the url.  The homepage is just a single-entry template.

Thanks for the advice!

Jesse

I was just wondering this myself. I’ve always just used {if segment_1 == “”}, but I’ve found that on some sites that doesn’t work because I’m doing something on the homepage template that may require segment_1 to be blank, but one of those other conditions PXLated mentioned is true, so the page doesn’t work as it should.

Would be nice if there was a way to go: {if homepage}home!{/if} that would check all those conditions for you. I suppose it would be checking to see if you’re viewing the template that has the asterisk by it - the one designated as your homepage in the Control Panel.

EDIT - ADD Actually thinking about it that is just silly what I have said below as you would then be checking something against something you already know - Duh - not enough sleep again for me!!. Will have another think!

Could you not set a global variable to what you know is the correct homepage (even though there are different ways on different sites you will know on your site which is correct) and then perform a calculation against that?

Best wishes,

Mark

Okay give this a go then. Written in about 1 minute but hopefully should work.

If Homepage Plugin

I’m sure I have something wrong with my ternary operator in the plugin somewhere but I think it appears to be working properly. Let me know if it is any good.

Best wishes,

Mark