Get Current URL in Magento and show something

Question

I'm trying to get the current URL in Magento and show something if I'm currently on that page. So far, this is what I did and it worked.

 <?php
 $currentUrl = $this->helper('core/url')->getCurrentUrl();
 ?>     

 <?php if($currentUrl === 'http://powerplantv2.jehzlau.net/blog') { ?>I am in the blog page<?php } ?>

However, I don't want to hard code the URL in the source code, because If I transfer to another server, I need to modify the phtml file again.

I tried everything that I found online, but it didn't work. I hope some Magento expert here can enlighted me of what I'm doing wrong. :(

Answer 1

You can retrieve the current URL path by doing the following:

$currentUrl = Mage::helper('core/url')->getCurrentUrl();
$url = Mage::getSingleton('core/url')->parseUrl($currentUrl);
$path = $url->getPath();

Then using some basic logic, you can target the /blog page.

$blogPaths = array('/blog', '/blog/', '/index.php/blog/');
if(in_array($path, $blogPaths))
{
    //Do something on /blog
}