Magento: How to tell if you're on a category page, or product page in .phtml file(s)

Question

I am trying to program into my .phtml files an if statement if the guest is on a category list page, or on a product page.

For example this code:

Answer 1

While Alan's answer will work, there is a more direct option, and you were actually on the right track with your code snippet... you just need to inspect the controller name rather than the module name:

getFrontController()->getRequest()->getControllerName(); ?>

That will return category or product based on their controllers being CategoryController.php and ProductController.php respectively.

This does assume that you've not installed any third-party modules that rewrite those controllers with their own.