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Is it possible to check whether channel entries exist. Something like the following?

{if channel entries}
 <h1>Results</h1>
 <ul>
  <li>{title}</li>
 </ul>
{if:else}
 Sorry No Results
{/if}

Thanks

Hi Kippbrady,

There isn’t any tag like that. Why don’t you use channel:entries tag for the same purpose.

Best Regards,

To follow up on what Bhashkar suggested - the channel entries loop will natively not return anything if the channel doesn’t contain any entries based on what your loop’s parameters call for, so effectively the channel entries loop already does what you are looking for.  Based on what you indicated you wanted, you would have a simple structure such as:

{exp:channel:entries channel="channel_name" orderby="date" sort="desc" disable="whatever|you|don't|need" dynamic="no"}
{if no_results}
Sorry No Results
{/if}

{if count == "1"}<h1>Results</h1>
<ul>{/if}
<li>{title}</li>
{if count == total_results} </ul>{/if}

{/exp:channel:entries}

Note I simply wrapped your title and the opening of the unordered list with a conditional that would present it only prior to the first entry returned by the loop, and likewise closed the unordered list only after the last entry returned by the loop.  Other that that, the loop would return only a title per entry, wrapped with <li></li>.

Thanks John,

Thanks for elaborating.

Thanks for the replies. The above code was meant to be pseudocode for what I’m trying to achieve.

Forgive I’m coming over from Wordpress and I’m trying to replicate the way I’d do things in that.

Thanks again.