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Asked: 2026-05-23T04:32:47+00:00

On Drupal 6, I used to have a custom PHP block which accessed arg(0),

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On Drupal 6, I used to have a custom PHP block which accessed arg(0), to detect which page the user was currently on. To find out whether the user was on the front page, I used:

if (arg(0) == '' || arg(0) == 'home') :

However, this test doesn’t appear to work on Drupal 7, as the arg(0) returns node. I was wondering whether there is a better way to check the page – for example the template engine’s $is_front which I can access at a block level to check whether the page is the front one.

Thanks for your help,

J

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  1. Editorial Team

    In Drupal 7 there is a function called drupal_is_front_page.

    Also as usual you can show/hide the block from the front page simply by providing <front> in the list of paths in your block’s configuration page.

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