Question

I’m creating a Joomla 1.6 template and I would like to make the first page different from the others (I say, the others with articles). What I expect is something like it:

<?php
if(this_page_link_to_an_artcile || this_page_is_not_the_main) {
   ?> <jdoc:include type="component" /> <?php
}
?>

I looked in one of the standard templates and got somewhat lost trying to find the “if” which makes not be showed in some pages.

Answer 1

// Is Frontpage?
$option = JRequest::getCmd('option');
$view = JRequest::getCmd('view');

$frontpage = ($option == 'com_content' && $view == 'featured')
$is_article = ($option == 'com_content');
if ($is_article && !$frontpage)
{
    // ...
}

(EDIT: now works in Joomla! 1.6)

($is_article || !$frontpage should always return true … because if it is not an article, it is not the frontpage. Depends on how you define “is an article”, of course.)