INDEX PAGE?

nikko50

How can I tell if the current page is the index page?

johanafm

basename(PHP_SELF)

NogDog

Define what you mean by "index page", please.

nikko50

I just want to know if a URL contains "index". I can use $PHP_SELF to get the current url but how do know if it contains "index"?

NogDog

if(basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']) == 'index.php') {

nikko50

Thanks NogDog!
Tracy

nrg_alpha

I was initially thinking along similar lines, but with the use of FILE instead:

if( basename(__FILE__) == 'index.php' ) {

Not to hijack this thread, but why does this magic constant utilise back slashes instead of forward slashes in the path?

NogDog

nrg_alpha;10928782 wrote:
I was initially thinking along similar lines, but with the use of FILE instead:
if( basename(__FILE__) == 'index.php' ) { 

That will work, too, with the restriction that it must be in the main file -- if it's in an included file, then it will use the name of that include file.

Not to hijack this thread, but why does this magic constant utilise back slashes instead of forward slashes in the path?

I believe it will use whichever type of directory separator is native to the OS where it is running (back-slash on Windoze, forward-slash on *N?X).

nrg_alpha

NogDog;10928788 wrote:
That will work, too, with the restriction that it must be in the main file -- if it's in an included file, then it will use the name of that include file.

I believe it will use whichever type of directory separator is native to the OS where it is running (back-slash on Windoze, forward-slash on *N?X).

Ah ok. Thanks for the explanation. Yeah, in this case, I wasn't intending FILE as an include, but just using basename to fetch the current file name.

🙂 @ Windoze