How to detect if the current page is the homepage with CakePhp?

cakephp, cakephp-2.0, php

Solution

Simply you can try this:

if ($this->request->here == '/') {
       // some code
}

Also it is good to read this part of documentation:

You can use CakeRequest to introspect a variety of things about the request. Beyond the detectors, you can also find out other information from various properties and methods.

$this->request->webroot contains the webroot directory.
$this->request->base contains the base path.
$this->request->here contains the full address to the current request
$this->request->query contains the query string parameters.

Problem

How can I detect if the user is on the homepage of my website with CakePhp? May I use `$this->webroot`? The goal is to do something only if the current page is the homepage.

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