How to determine if the user is viewing the Joomla front page or not?

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If you are using Joomla older version like 1.0 then you’ll only need to verify the current component with the following command:


if ($option == 'com_frontpage' || $option == '') {
echo 'This is the front page';
}

Bellow porsion for Joomla! 1.5 could be easily confirmed by the following command:


if ( JRequest::getVar('view') === 'frontpage' ) {
echo 'This is the front page';
}

Just in case the above command doesn’t work then the issue could be a little more complicated and need to check if the current active menu item is the default one. I saw this issue in some 1.5 early versions.


$menu =& JSite::getMenu();
if ($menu->getActive() == $menu->getDefault()) {
echo 'This is the front page';
}

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  2. For multi-lingual sites the front page is dependent on the currently selected language, so you will need to use code like this:

    getActive() == $menu->getDefault( 'en-GB' )) {
    echo 'This is the front page';
    }
    elseif ($menu->getActive() == $menu->getDefault( 'fr-FR' )) {
    echo 'Accueil';
    }
    ?>

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