title: How can you test if you're on the homepage in Joomla?
body: <p>I'm working on a Joomla site, and I need the front page to look slightly different from the rest of the pages, but not enough to warrant the use of two themes (it's a pain to have to update two stylesheets and two sets of images every time I want to make a small change). </p>
  
  <p>My thoughts are to throw in a little test in the index.php of the template: if we're at the homepage, serve X, otherwise, serve Y. However, I'm not entirely sure how to test this. I can't just use the URL because url.com/ and url.com/index.php and url.com/index.php? etc etc are all valid.</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone know of a way to do what I'm trying to do? Like a $_JOOMLA['page'] variable or something convenient like that?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!
  --Mala</p>