Turn off extension in Control Panel

Question

I would like to make sure an extension isn't run, via sessions_end hook, in the control panel.

I'm currently doing this like so:

if ($this->EE->input->get_post('D') == "cp")
{
    return FALSE;
}

My question: is there a better or prefered method of having an extension only run a hook on the frontend and not in the CP?

Answer 1

That should work fine, but you can also check the REQ constant (docs) which has the following possible values:

• CP - Control panel requests
• PAGE - Frontend template requests
• ACTION - Module actions, e.g. mysite.com/?ACT=123

For example:

if (REQ == 'CP')
{
    return FALSE;
}