I'm new to SilverStripe, so please bear with me :-)

I want to include a link in the footer.ss ONLY when the visitor is viewing the home page. I've tried various options like

<% if ClassName = HomePage %>
 ... my html code here ... 
<% end_if %>

How do I show something only on the home page from WITHIN the footer? TIA!

Hi ColWebDev,

You could try the following in your footer.ss file:

<% if URLSegment = home %>
... html code here ... 
<% end_if %>

-helenclarko

helenclarko, thanks for the reply, but I'm afraid that doesn't work either. It shows on the home page that way, but also continues to show on every other page.

Could it be a caching/some other issue? (I HAVE been flushing after each change, but...) Any other ideas what I could be doing wrong? Or another way to accomplish what I'm trying to do?

Try

<% if InSection(home) %>
.....text here  ..
<% else %>
<% end_if %>

That should work

hmmm...that didn't work either. I came into this site for a client after it was set up, so I'm going to assume there's something odd about the way it's set up and keep poking around. Thanks for the feedback, though! if anyone knows anything else I could try, I'm all ears. ;-)

If <% if $URLSegment == 'home' %> shows on every page, then you've either got a single page website... or you've the parser is confusing what is and isn't a string.

It's also important to ensure you're editing the correct template (see the first few tutorials for more info on this).

Pyromanik, thanks for the troubleshooting direction. I know it's not a single page site b/c I can set the various templates (home page, internal page, etc) from the backend. I also know I"m editing the correct footer file since I DO see any changes I make on the live site.

So let's say for argument's sake the parser is confused. As I stated initially, I'm new to SS (but not to coding/CMSs in general). Is there some way for me to "dirty" code it - maybe put a variable on the homepage somewhere that doesn't show, and then check if that variable is set in the footer? Something like:
if ($homeCheck == "abcde") { show homepage code }, where $homeCheck is just some random variable I set up?

<% if $ClassName == 'HomePage' %> - 'clean'
<% if ClassName = home %> - not so 'clean'. It's rare, but the parser can confuse strings and variables (not randomly, but it can happen) - $ and '' make it specific.

I think it's more likely you're confusing scope, possibly through structuring your site in some confusing manner.