Thread

I have the following code in a template:

{if no_results}{redirect="articles/index"}{/if}

Where if there are no results for the entry detail I want to redirect the user back to the articles index “channel” or page.

I keep getting 404’d with this though.

I’ve tried everything to get EE to redirect the user back to the index template but it only works if I specify an actual channel of the template group like articles/features, can’t get it to redirect to the index.

_This_ close to just adding a PHP redirect but I figured I’d ask here first.

Anyone have any idea as to why?

Thanks.

I’m not too sure what you mean by “channel of the template group” and not sure why that’s not working for you as it should be really but have you tried any of these :

{if no_results}
{redirect="/articles/index"}
{/if}

or

{if no_results}
{redirect="/articles"}
{/if}

or

{if no_results}
{redirect="articles"}
{/if}

Best wishes,

Mark

I didn’t do a good job of explaining it, sorry.

I have a template group called “articles”.

Under articles I have the following templates:
index: lists all articles
news: lists all “news” articles
features: lists all “feature” articles
detail: the full news or feature entry

When a user goes to an articles/detail entry that returns no records, I want to redirect them back to articles/index but every iteration of redirect I try gives me a 404, including all the ones you listed above.

I didn’t do a good job of explaining it, sorry.

Actually you did explain perfectly. I’m a bit at a loss as to why what you are trying isn’t working though as it definitely should do.

Can you get a {redirect=""} without using no_results to work at all? Try one outside the Channel Entries tag and see if it works perhaps.

Most Important Question
Next up you do have this {if no_results} conditional placed within the Channel Entries tag don’t you? If not then it will need to be in there in order for this to work.

After that, do you have any fields being spat out between the Channel Entries Tag Pair so that you can see if you are indeed getting any results or not?

Hope that helps a bit.

Best wishes,

Mark

Can you get a {redirect=”“} without using no_results to work at all? Try one outside the Channel Entries tag and see if it works perhaps.

It works when I reference a specific channel outside and inside the entries tag but still will not redirect to the index.

Next up you do have this {if no_results} conditional placed within the Channel Entries tag don’t you? If not then it will need to be in there in order for this to work.

Yes.

After that, do you have any fields being spat out between the Channel Entries Tag Pair so that you can see if you are indeed getting any results or not?

It’s definitely not returning any results.

The point of this is that I have a custom field with each entry called “suspend_entry” which I use to control author entries (if they break formatting, etc.) so if an entry is suspended (search:suspend_entry=“No” in the channel entries tag) but a user still accesses the articles/detail page I want to redirect them to the index.

I’m thinking it could have something to do with how I have my .htaccess setup as I have some funky things in there for custom URL functionality for users.

I guess it’s not a big deal if I can’t get the EE redirect to work, I can just throw a little PHP redirect statement in the conditional but it is a weird problem.

Hi TomT,

Can you share you full Channel Entries tag please and tell us what your URL looks like on the page you are testing with?

What version and build of EE are you using?
Are you using any add-ons?

If you disable your htaccess and add index.php back into your General Configuration setting does it work?

Here is the channel entries tag:

{exp:channel:entries channel="features|news" limit="1" search:suspend_entry="No" track_views="one"}

Sample URL:
domain.com/articles/detail/full-super-8-trailer-released

Version: latest
Add-ons: Wygwam, Hidden Tab and some others.

Here’s the workaround I wound up using to get the redirect to work:

{if no_results}
    <noscript><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=/articles/" /></noscript>
    (opening javascript tag)document.location="/articles/";</closing javascript tag>
{/if}

So you’re OK now?

If you are using that javascript to redirect the page then myself personally I would really really want to know why the {if no_results} conditional isn’t working before carrying on any further.

It may well have implications further on down the line.

But that’s just me 😉

Best wishes,

Mark

If you are using that javascript to redirect the page then myself personally I would really really want to know why the {if no_results} conditional isn’t working before carrying on any further.

The conditional is working, it’s the redirect that wasn’t.  Kept giving me a 404 even though the channel was correct.

So you’re OK now?

On this issue, yes 😊

Sounds good, TomT! Let us know if you need anything else.