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I’m using EE 2 and I’m very new.

I don’t want to display a list unless I have entries since I’d have invalid html:

<ul>
   {exp:channel:entries channel="test"}
      <li>{title}</li>
   {/exp:channel:entries}
</ul>

I can’t nest EE tags like this:

{exp:channel:entries channel="test"}
   {if no_results}
      <!-- Is there no opposite of no_results? -->
   {if:else}
      <ul>
         {exp:channel:entries channel="test"}
            <li>{title}</li>
         {/exp:channel:entries}
      </ul>
   {/if}
{/exp:channel:entries}

Using PHP, I’d either do a count() query before getting the entries, or I’d get the entries first, and only if some entries existed would I print the list.

Rick Jolly -

You have a few options. You could do something like this, for example:

{exp:channel:entries channel="test" dynamic="no" limit="1" disable="categories|member_data|pagination"}
   {if count > 0}
      {embed="embed_template_group/embed_template"}
   {/if}
{/exp:channel:entries}

Note that in the channel entries tag, I’ve restricted it significantly. Essentially, this to limit the load on the DB and just return a single entry, allowing you to determine whether or not there are any entries at all. If you need to know whether there are more than 1, you’ll need to modify the parameters. Then, in the embedded template, you would make the actual list, like so:

<ul>
{exp:channel:entries channel="test" dynamic="no"}
   <li>{title}</li>
{/exp:channel:entries}
</ul>

There are other options, but this one should work for you.

Lance
Green Egg Media

Thanks so much! That is exactly what I needed.

If I still have your attention, another developer somehow added automatic html list tags to {exp:channel:entries channel="test"} and I’m wondering how to find this setting.

So this:

{exp:channel:entries channel="test" dynamic="no"}
   {title}
{/exp:channel:entries}

automatically gets rendered as this:

<ul>
   <li>title</li>
</ul>

It sounds like the developer was either using a plugin or an extension of some type to accomplish this. This isn’t a built-in feature of EE, at least not one I’ve encountered, and certainly not one that’s documented.

I recommend asking the particular developer who had done this how to do it.

Lance
Green Egg Media

Ok, thanks so much.

NP, glad to help.