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title: How to detect if we are browsing the home page in Joomla 4 - JoomlaMax
description: Below you can to detect if we are browsing the home page(Menu) in Joomla 4 - php
author: Amin E.
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## Blog

# How to detect if we are browsing the home page in Joomla 4

Last Updated: 18 August 2022

 Below you can find a PHP snippet that will allow you to detect whether we are browsing the home page. 



 



```
use Joomla\CMS\Factory;

//check homepage
$app = Factory::getApplication();
$isHomepage = $app->getMenu()->getActive()->home;
if($isHomepage){
echo 'home';	
}else{
echo 'no';	
}
```



**How to Get Menu in Joomla**



In Joomla a Menu is the set of navigation links you can have as a main menu (at the top of site) or side menu or footer menu. Each of the individual navigation link is a Menu item. You can easily get menu items in Joomla.



To get the menu:



```
use Joomla\CMS\Factory;
$app = Factory::getApplication();
$menu = $app->getMenu();
```



**Properties**



The variable $items is an array of menu item objects. It contains the following:



- id
- menutype
- title
- alias
- note
- route
- link
- type
- level
- language
- browserNav
- access
- home
- template_style_id
- component_id
- parent_id
- component
- tree (Array)
- query (Array)



All the other attributes of the menu item are stored in the params field in the database and accessed using the **getParams()** method.



```
$params = $menuitem->getParams(); 
$displayed = $params->get("menu_show");
$show_tags = $params->get("show_tags");
```