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One lucky family will win the house of a lifetime in HGTV’s annual Dream Home Giveaway.  This year, HGTV has chosen the lake Tahoe community in California as the location—a luxurious hotspot complete with adventure, intrigue and beauty.  Since it is situated right in the mountains, residents will be very close to nature.

An hour long exclusive special will air on January 1st—and what better way to usher in the near year by unveiling the dream home and making one lucky family extremely happy. Until next year!

You can do this two ways.

One way is to create a “404 page” which basically loads in whatever the segment_1 is.  You can set up within your template global preferences what template to use as a 404.  Then on the 404 page, you can do a check to see if the entry exists with the url_title = to {segment_1}, if nothing is found, then display an actual 404 message.  If something is found, then display the contents of the page.

Another way is to use the Pages module and create the URLs you want per entry.  This way works very well to and is simple, the downside is you have to setup the url for each entry you post.

Hi, thanks, yes you can still enter. The dream home is built every year by and you can enter as many times as you like.

Jan, you can experiment using the require_entry parameter in the Channel Entries tag pair coupled with the url_title parameter (pass in segment_1). If no entry is found just render your normal homepage. If one is, display it.

The conditional you want to try is

{if no_results}
normal homepage
{if:else}
single entry display
{/if}

I haven’t tested this in a template but something along these lines might help you get started.

It’s always good to know that people are happy when they get a new house like that. Not only do they get a great new home to live it. Usually the locations are also fantastic. This year the winners also get a yacht with the house that they can use to cruise lake tahoe 😊

I am pretty sure that you cannot do:

{if no_results}
normal homepage
{if:else}
single entry display
{/if}

No results blocks are only simple {if no_results}{/if}.

Sorry, my notification went to junk mail.

To answer the question, require_entry works with dynamic URLs, so you can’t use that with the url_title=”{segment_2"}.  Leave require_entry out and it will work.

Use {if no_results} to test if there is an entry or not, instead of require_entry parameter.

I am trying to do the same thing.

I wanted to use urls like http://mysite.com/entry_title

The method in this thread works, although this means every page request still has a status of 404.

Is there a way to prevent this?

Thanks,

Tom

Ok, yes well you need to enter to get a chance right? So anyway, the hgtv dream home is a great opportunity to get that home you always wanted. The house has many features and many advanced technologies, you won’t even need to leave your house to experience paradise.

Here is a picture, this is note the house itself, but it’s another place I wouldn’t mind living in: