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Hello,
how can I find out if there is a next or previous entry available when I’m on a single entry page?
Basically I want to know whether I am looking at the last or first entry of the channel.

{exp:channel:entries channel="{segment_2}" require_entry="yes" limit="1" disable="categories|category_fields|member_data|trackbacks"}

e.g.
{if last_entry} do this{/if}
{if first_entry} do that {/if}

{/exp:channel:entries}

Thanks!

Hi soundseller,

Sounds like you could achieve what you’re looking for with the next/previous pagination method, outlined here. Does that help?

Thanks for helping,
unfortunately it doesn’t seem to work for me.
When I try:

{exp:channel:entries channel="{segment_2}" paginate="top" require_entry="yes" limit="1" disable="categories|category_fields|member_data|trackbacks"}

{paginate}
        {if previous_page}
           do this
        {/if}
        {if next_page}
            do that
        {/if}
    {/paginate}
...

Nothing is displaying at all.
I have to mention again, that this is intended to be used on a single entry page.

What I am trying to achieve is to find out, if it is the first page and apply a different ce_cache tag, so I don’t have to remove all cached entries, when publishing a new post.

The first entry will obviously have no cached “next link”, so every time I publish a new entry I have to delete all cached “prevnext_network” items.

But I would like to be able to delete only the first entry(the only one that has actually changed).
I hope this makes sense.

{if first_page}
{exp:ce_cache:it tags="first_page_prevnext_network" seconds="{cache_time}"}
{/if}
{if not_first_page}
{exp:ce_cache:it tags="not_first_page_prevnext_network" seconds="{cache_time}"}
{/if}
      <!--Pagination-->
      <div class="pagination clearfix">
       {exp:channel:prev_entry channel="{segment_2}"}
        <div id="prev_entry">
           <a href="/blog/{segment_2}/{url_title}class=prev_link">{exp:eehive_hacksaw chars="25" append = "..."}{title}{/exp:eehive_hacksaw}</a>
        </div>
       {/exp:channel:prev_entry}

       {exp:channel:next_entry channel="{segment_2}"}
        <div id="next_entry">
         <a href="/blog/{segment_2}/{url_title}class=next_link">{exp:eehive_hacksaw chars="25" append = "..."}{title}{/exp:eehive_hacksaw}</a>
        </div>
       {/exp:channel:next_entry}
      </div>

     {/exp:ce_cache:it}

Thanks

Ah, I see. Yeah, that’s different than I was originally thinking. You’re right in going with the exp:channel:prev_entry and exp:channel:next_entry tags.

In that line of thinking, it seems like this part of the Next/Previous Entry Linking user guide article might be helpful:

If you are viewing the most recent entry in your channel, then the “next_entry” tag’s contents will not be shown (since there is no “next entry”). Likewise, when you are viewing the oldest/first entry in the channel the “previous_entry” content will not be shown.

Does it work if you stick the relevant CE Cache tags within the exp:channel:prev_entry and exp:channel:next_entry tags?