NEW Plugin - If Homepage…

Mark,

You’re a machine man! Simple, but useful.

Hey Mark, well done, seems very useful.

Just a tiny remark: in terms of usability, it would make more sense if the syntax was:

{exp:if_homepage}

{if true}
    This is the homepage
{if:else}
    This isn't the homepage
{/if}

{/exp:if_homepage}

Or even

{if {exp:if_homepage}}
    This is the homepage
{if:else}
    This isn't the homepage
{/if}

Don’t know if the latter is possible in EE.

Hiya,

You are absolutely right that I have the condition a bit upside down. Will look at that a bit later on and upload the new version. 😉

Best wishes,

Mark

Okay updated!

Hopefully should work. Let me know if I’ve done something wonky!!

Best wishes,

Mark

Seriously Mark.. What kind of caffeine do you drink? You’re on here more than I am.. That’s INCREDIBLE.

No caffeine for me. I’m strictly a soft drinks sort of guy. Fly helis so can’t afford to mess with my body too much! 😉

Plus I hate the smell of coffee and other caffeine based products 😊

Is it all working for everyone? The plugin I mean 😊

Best wishes,

Mark

Slight update to the plugin.

Now changed conditional to {if is_homepage} instead of {if true}. Hopefully this is a better fit?

Updated file in top post.

Best wishes,

Mark

For the record, the newest version is listed as 1.0.2, but the version number in the $plugin_info array still says 1.0.1.

And does every version note require an emoticon?

Hi Ryan,

Thanks for the heads up on the version number. The reason was that I made the swap between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2 quite close between each other and so basically forgot 😉 Fixed now though.

Not too sure what you mean by the emoticons though? Perhaps the ones in the plugin notes? Sorry if that is not the right thing to do? No offence was intended by it.

Best wishes,

Mark

Nice one mark. Just came across a great use for this. And I LOVE that you’re keeping all version available in the parent. I wish more add-ons kept all versions available.

Anywho, good work.

I’d even think it’d be easier if you could create a global variable, only if you’re at the homepage. So, do your query magic to see if you’re at the home page. And then your code could be

{if mb_is_homepage}
TRUE
{if:else}
FALSE
{/if}

without needing the plugin syntax around it.

Anywho… just wishing… wishing up a star!

Nice one mark. Just came across a great use for this.

Excellent. Thanks for the kind words and glad that it has found some uses 😉

And I *LOVE* that you’re keeping all version available in the parent. I wish more add-ons kept all versions available. Anywho, good work.

Yep like to keep everything in the one place making it easier for everyone to find what they are looking for.

I’d even think it’d be easier if you could create a global variable, only if you’re at the homepage. So, do your query magic to see if you’re at the home page. And then your code could be

{if mb_is_homepage}
TRUE
{if:else}
FALSE
{/if}

without needing the plugin syntax around it. Anywho… just wishing… wishing up a star!

Not too sure how I would go about doing that because as far as I know to use a plugin you have to have the surrounding plugin tags. Would be great if that could be done but I don’t know how that is possible.

Anyway glad you found a use for it.

Best wishes,

Mark

Just to note that this doesn’t work if you’re trying to use Google AdWords. My client has an incoming link like this from certain Google searches:

http://www.site.com/?gclid=CL_H2Jm5x5QCFSQyusyrNbeflg

Even though this is technically still the homepage, the plugin thinks this is not.

Just to note that this doesn’t work if you’re trying to use Google AdWords. My client has an incoming link like this from certain Google searches:

http://www.site.com/?gclid=CL_H2Jm5x5QCFSQyusyrNbeflg

Even though this is technically still the homepage, the plugin thinks this is not.

I’ve been struggling with this for quite some time but recently discovered how to use mod_rewrite to combat this. It might not be the best way but it seems to work for me so far…

# Remove session ID's from URL
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.+)?sid=[a-z0-9]+(&?.*)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /$1?%1 [L,R=301]

Does this work for EE2? Can’t seem to get it to work. I’m using inbetween the title tag but expressionengine says:

The following tag has a syntax error: {exp:if_homepage} Please correct the syntax in your template.

I’ve used this and it seems to work:

<title>
  {if segment_1==""}
  {site_name}
  {if:else}
  {site_name}{exp:channel:entries rdf="off" limit="1"} - {title}{/exp:channel:entries}
  {/if}
  </title>