Detecting when a user is on main/category/product pages

How do I go about detecting when a user is on the home page, a category page, or on a product page? I want to use this information to display different sidebar information depending on what "level" the customer is at on my site.

-Roger

You do not need to necessarily "detect" what page they are on but more what page they select to be loaded

In your install of files find includes/templates/template_default/css/CSS_reade_me.txt file for css by page

Thank you for the reference. I read through it and will likely be useful for other ideas I have, but what I am intending to do is strategically add rel="nofollow" to certain anchors depending on what "level" (main/category/product) they are at.

I figure this will involve some conditional statements in the affected sidebox files, but I wanted to get a confirmation on exactly which variables flag the status (like !$this_is_home_page).

-Roger

In plain english - what are you attempting to accomplish?

Yes interesting case? What are you trying to do...

You would track the level to the following
product page -> main_page=product_info
category page -> main_page=index&cPath=xxx
home page -> main_page=index (cPath not set)

all being trackable by the php $_GET[] paramenter (for example $_GET[main_page])

rhutchison:

How do I go about detecting when a user is on the home page, a category page, or on a product page? I want to use this information to display different sidebar information depending on what "level" the customer is at on my site.

-Roger

($current_page_base) tells you which page they're on.

($this_is_home_page == true) when on home page

a category/product-listing is denoted by (!this_is_home_page && $current_page_base == 'index')

a product page is denoted by ($current_page_base == 'product_info') (assuming you're using the default product-type)

DrByte:

($current_page_base) tells you which page they're on.

($this_is_home_page == true) when on home page

a category/product-listing is denoted by (!this_is_home_page && $current_page_base == 'index')

a product page is denoted by ($current_page_base == 'product_info') (assuming you're using the default product-type)

Yeah either this way or what I have mentioned above. The vars drbyte mentioned are being controlled by the get parameters ...[EDIT: and are proper Zen Cart coding approaches.]