Comments for How to determine which page you are on from within a Joomla! 1.5 template at http://www.howtojoomla.net , comment 1 to 10 out of 10 comments http://www.howtojoomla.net Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:10:42 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/85/6/#comment-886 Great question, Zee. My answer to that is, it depends on the situation. Sometimes you just need a small modification based on which page you are on. Making a separate template is a lot of work for a small modification when you can easily use this technique to make that modification within the same template. Also, when you are dealing with multiple templates and you need to make a style change, you have to do it in more than one place. Keeping it all within one template limits the need to make changes in several places. Thanks for the question, and thanks for visiting! - Cory Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:50:42 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/85/6/#comment-885 As another option, couldn't you create another template and tell the menu item which template to use? Or do you find the method above easier? - Zee Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:39:28 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/85/6/#comment-810 Just a simple question, how do you add the colors in your articles for php coding for example, and how you format it like that? - Fernando Tue, 27 May 2008 04:20:46 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/85/6/#comment-809 On top of page : [? $pageoption = JRequest::getVar( 'option', '' ); ?] [? $pageview = JRequest::getVar( 'view', '' ); ?] On body : [? if ($pageoption == 'com_virtuemart') {echo "";} elseif ($pageview == 'article') {echo "";} else { ?] [ } ?] * change [ ] to < > - links Sun, 25 May 2008 01:05:07 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/85/6/#comment-808 uh sorry, i think i need to quote my code : On top of page : [quote] [/quote] On body : [quote] [/quote] - links Sun, 25 May 2008 01:01:38 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/85/6/#comment-807 this simple article is life safer !, i search all day in jm and vm forum but can't found this solution, one question : is my php right if need to hide from several component : On top of page : On body : - links Sun, 25 May 2008 00:59:36 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/85/6/#comment-800 Hi Lisa... this should work with SEF URL's because you are using Joomla's "JRequest::getVar" command. I could go into a lengthy explanation of why this works, but basically Joomla automatically knows what the request parameters are even if you use SEF URL's. - Cory Mon, 19 May 2008 07:30:31 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/85/6/#comment-799 But what if you are using SEF URL's? Is tehre still a way to achieve this? Thank you by the way for an excellent blog - both entertaining and educational! /Lisa - Lisa Mon, 19 May 2008 01:25:25 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/85/6/#comment-771 Good question, Jon. You need to check for the value of "view". In this case, view=frontpage. - Cory Thu, 01 May 2008 17:19:11 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/85/6/#comment-770 Great tip for the Joomla masses. I use this technique a lot as well. One question I have though, since I'm new to Joomla 1.5 I'm finding it hard to figure out if I'm on the frontpage. In 1.0.x $option would equal com_frontpage, but in Joomla 1.5 com_content is used for the frontpage as well as regular content. Do you know of a simple way to distinguish the frontpage from within the template? - Jon Thu, 01 May 2008 17:05:54 +0100