[Mediawiki-l] Detecting main page with conditional statement?

[Alexis Moinet]

Teemu Lantta wrote :
> I just can't figure out how to make an if expression on skin/template 
> file that checks if you are on main page or not - and after that writes 
> some html. The problem seems to be that I can't find the freakin 
> variable that contains the name of current page or article.

you can use this :

<?php
//check whether the page is main page in any language
if ( $this->data['title'] == wfMsgForContent('mainpage') ) { ?>

some html here

<?php } else { ?>

some html here

<?php } ?>