[SOLVED] Cannot detect Frontpage properly in Joomla 2.5 templates

Cannot detect Frontpage properly in Joomla 2.5 templates

I've seen in Joomla documentation the way to detect if you are in Frontpage while creating a template in Joomla 2.5. This is the code:

<?php 
$app = JFactory::getApplication(); 
$menu = $app->getMenu(); 
if ($menu->getActive() == $menu->getDefault()) { 
    echo 'This is the front page'; 
} 
?>

This works when you are at home page (or clicking on Home menu), but I have an slider in home page, and I link in the slider to an article which is not in any menu item in the application. When I load this article the code above returns as I were at frontpage. I guess that if I doesn't click on any menu item, $menu->getActive() doesn't change.

Any suggestion? Thanks in advance.

Solution

You can do one thing to solve this problem. Create a hidden menu of all the article links which are linked in the sliders.By creating hidden menu the link will be initialized and $menu->getActive() will work for all the links..Hopefully it will works for you .