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I am trying to display some content on the first page of my site. But I don’t want to display it on the 2nd, 3rd, ... pages.
I am using segments to achieve this, but for some reason it is not working.

Basically I am checking if segment_1 exists. If the value is nothing, then I am probably still on the first page and I can display the content. If the value is P0, then I am still on the first page, and I can display the content.

This is the code, that I am using.

{if segment_1 == "" OR segment_1 == " " OR segment_1 == "P0"}
content
{/if}

My problem is, that for some reason, the content still shows up on all the other pages (2nd, 3rd, etc.).
I narrowed down the problem to the first section of the condition:

segment_1 == ""

If I remove this, the content is not displayed on the 2nd, 3rd, etc. pages. But it is also missing from the 1st page. If I add the condition back, the content appears on the 1st page, but it also appears on the other ones.

Any ideas on what I might be doing wrong? Or is there a better way to do this?

Thanks!

Are you using the same template for your 1st, 2nd, 3rd pages or are you trying to achieve this in a global embed?

I am trying to use this on our index page, which is re-used on the 2nd, 3rd, etc. pages.
So, I think I am trying to achieve a global embed.

So you don’t have separate templates for your 2nd and 3rd pages?

No, I don’t want to have separate pages for those….

It sounds like you are using weblog pagination on your websites homepage, is that correct?

If so, I think the first segment will be evaluated empty even with the pagination segment (P0, P1, P2, etc) in the URI.

But if that is the case, is segment doing the right thing? Isn’t is supposed to return P0, P1, etc?

Actually yes, if I try put this:

{if segment_2}Has segment 2{/if}

in a template where I use pagination then I only see “Has segment 2” when P0, P10, etc is in the URI.

This worked for me:

{if segment_2== "" OR segment_2 == "P0"}This is the first page{/if}

My URLs are structured as follows:

http://www.mydomain.com/template_group/
http://www.mydomain.com/template_group/P0/
http://www.mydomain.com/template_group/P10/

and the above conditional only evaluates true for the first two URLs

Well, it is not working. I tried the following:

{if segment_1}do nothing
{if:else}show content{/if}

Still, content shows up on all the pages.

What do your URLs look like?

Main page:
http://www.website.com

2nd, 3rd, etc.. pages:
http://www.website.com/index.php/P10
http://www.website.com/index.php/P20
http://www.website.com/index.php/P30

Not sure whats going on then, might be worth posting your entire template code.

I might try to see if there is any way to do it with php.
Thank you for your help optima!

dombi,

What version and build of EE are you using?
Always finish the other half of the condition

{if segment_1 == ""}do nothing
{if:else}show content{/if}

http://www.website.com/index.php/P10
http://www.website.com/index.php/P20
http://www.website.com/index.php/P30

What happens if you put the template group in your URLs