If is_page() With Regular PHP

Published: 2010-10-02

My article on WordPress' is_page() is one of the most popular articles on my site. One thing I receive questions about on a regular basis, is how to use is_page() in regular PHP.

Well the downside is, you can't. The upside is that you can still perform a similar check

<?php $baseurl = 'http://www.example.com'; //set the base url of the site $pageYouWant = $baseurl."/the-rest-of-the-url"; //add the rest of the url you want to check against $currentPage = $baseurl.$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];// this gets the current page url if($pageYouWant==$currentPage) { //do something } ?>

Not as smooth as is_page() but still a fairly simple way to check the page you are currently on. You can easily check if it is "=="/"!=", and add in as many "&&"/"||" conditions as you want.

As always, if you have a better way to do this, or use it in something cool, let me know in the comments.