How can you test if you're on the homepage in Joomla?

joomla, php

Solution

if(JRequest::getVar('view') == "frontpage" ) {
    //You are in!
}
else {
    //You are out!
}

Problem

I'm working on a Joomla site, and I need the front page to look slightly different from the rest of the pages, but not enough to warrant the use of two themes (it's a pain to have to update two stylesheets and two sets of images every time I want to make a small change). My thoughts are to throw in a little test in the index.php of the template: if we're at the homepage, serve X, otherwise, serve Y. However, I'm not entirely sure how to test this. I can't just use the URL because url.com/ and url.com/index.php and url.com/index.php? etc etc are all valid. Does anyone know of a way to do what I'm trying to do? Like a $_JOOMLA['page'] variable or something convenient like that? Thanks! --Mala

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