Magento - How to find if you are on homepage - getIsHomePage

Today I needed to exclude hot products and recently viewed products block from homepage, so I needed to find if the current page is homepage. The first block of code worked on header.phtml template but not in main page template, so I ended up using 2nd option.

If you need to check this on header.phtml template then use this code:

<?php
if($this->getIsHomePage()) {
    echo 'You are in Homepage!';
} else {
    echo 'You are NOT in Homepage!';
}
?>

If you want to check from other pages than do this:

<?php
$is_homepage = Mage::getBlockSingleton('page/html_header')->getIsHomePage();
if($is_homepage)
{
	echo "You are on Homepage!";
} else {
	echo "You are NOT on Homepage!";
}
?>

or,

<?php
$routeName = Mage::app()->getRequest()->getRouteName();
$identifier = Mage::getSingleton('cms/page')->getIdentifier();
 
if($routeName == 'cms' && $identifier == 'home') {
    echo 'You are in Homepage!';
} else {
    echo 'You are NOT in Homepage!';
}
?>