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I must be missing something obvious, but, how can I use a single template to serve search results when results are and aren’t found?

I’m building a search form like this, using the no_result_page parameter:

{exp:search:simple_form channel="news|pages" result_page="search/index" search_in="everywhere" no_result_page="search/index"}

I tried the following, but, I don’t get any output from within {exp:search:search_results}.

{exp:search:total_results}
 {if "{total_results}" != "0"}
  {exp:search:search_results}
   {title}, etc.
  {/exp:search:search_results}
 {/if}
{/exp:search:total_results}

... if I don’t nest {exp:search_results} within that conditional, I get the ugly “Search Results: Your search did not return any results.” system message.

What am I missing? Surely there’s a conditional I can nest {exp:search:search_results} within that won’t bork the template.

I’m fairly sure you have to setup a separate static ‘no results’ template. Try to combine the two and EE will fall over. In the no results page you can use {exp:search:keywords} to make things a little dynamic, e.g.

We have been unable to find any results for '{exp:search:keywords}'

Hi Nick,

Indeed, Dom is correct. The no-results template should be separate and distinct.

Cheers,