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Joomla detect if home page

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:21:34 +0000

To detect if current page is Joomla hage page, do this code:

$uri = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
if ($uri == “/”) {
echo “You’re on the homepage”;
}
?>

How to use different css on different browser

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 05:02:27 +0000

Cross Browser Compatibility is a huge issue in the website development with many browsers in the market. But luckily most of them uses Internet Explorer and Firefox. Sometimes different version of browser also have different output like the display in IE8 and IE6. To tackle this you can use different css for different browser.

Here’s the code:

if lte IE 6 means if browser is lower than equal (lte) IE 6. If you want to use the css specifically to IE 6 then: . There are also gte (greater then equal) for browser above or equal a spesific browser. Here’s the summary:

lte IE 6 -> IE 6 and all version lower
lt IE 6 -> version below IE 6
IE 6 -> only IE 6
gt IE 6 -> version higher IE 6
gte IE 6 -> IE 6 and all version higher

Download the full code here.

Google maps code sample

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:24:11 +0000

This article is a sample for google maps. You just need to download the code here. In the example, I show Google Headquarters in Google Maps. But before you download, you need to sign up for Google Maps API here and get a key that you will use in the code. From the code that you have download, find the following code:

and change “change-this-to-your-google-api” to your key. If you have any problem just comment below.