Case: search returns no results

The CMS Questions
1

I’m sure that I am missing something very minor here. I have set up a search form that I put in my site/snippets/header.php snippet:

<form action="<?php echo page('search')->url() ?>">
      <input type="search" name="q"><input type="submit" value="Search">
</form>

Here is my rough prototype site/templates/search.php template

<?php snippet('header') ?>

<section id="search">
<ul>
  <?php foreach($results as $result): ?>
  <li>
    <div>
    <a href="<?php echo $result->url() ?>">
      <?php echo $result->title()->html() ?>
    </a>
    </div>
    <div>
      <?php echo $result->text()->excerpt(100) ?>
    </div>
  </li>
  <?php endforeach ?>
</ul>

</section>

<?php snippet('footer') ?>

And finally my site/controllers/search.php controller:

<?php 

return function($site, $pages, $page) {

  $query   = get('q');
  $results = $site->search($query, 'title|text');

  return array(
    'query'   => $query,
    'results' => $results, 
  );

};

Everything is running smoothly, but I want to be able to insert some text that basically says: Your search did not return any results or something to that effect on the Search page. How is this done?

Thanks in advance!

Paul B.

2

You could either use the pagination object and then count the items:

$pagination = $results->pagination();
$itemCount = $pagination->countItems();

http://getkirby.com/docs/toolkit/api/pagination/countitems

Or just check if there are any items in $results using count().

Then in your template, display the results only if there are elements:

if($itemCount == 0) {
   echo "no results"
}
else {
 //display results
}
3

One again @texnixe, your infinite Kirby knowledge has saved the day.

Many Thanks

Paul B.