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Posted: **Tue Jun 06, 2017 3:12 am**

I have a menu item within my page that links to some specific pages as they are activated. However, before the first page is activated, the website is a little missing on that page. Is there a way to display some text like 'no pages active yet' ? Here is my navigator template code below. I assume I need to add an {else}<span>no pages active yet</span> or similar somewhere, but haven't figured it out. Any ideas?

Thanks

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{function name=sub_menu depth=1}{strip}
  {foreach $data as $node}
    {* setup classes for the anchor and list item *}
    {assign var='aclass' value='button'}

    {if $node->current}
      {* this is the current page *}
      {assign var='aclass' value=$aclass|cat:'active'}
    {/if}

    {* build the menu item node *}
    {if $node->type == 'sectionheader'}
      <li class='sectionheader'><span>{$node->menutext}</span>
        {if isset($node->children)}
          {sub_menu data=$node->children depth=$depth+1}
        {/if}
      </li>
    {else if $node->type == 'separator'}
      <li class='separator'><hr class='separator'/></li>
    {else}
      {* regular item *}
        <a class="{$aclass}" href="{$node->url}"{if $node->target ne ""} target="{$node->target}"{/if} aria-label="{$node->menutext}">{$node->menutext}</a
        {if isset($node->children)}
          {sub_menu data=$node->children depth=$depth+1}
        {/if}
    {/if}
  {/foreach}

{/strip}{/function}

{if isset($nodes)}
{sub_menu data=$nodes depth=0}
{/if}

Posted: **Tue Jun 06, 2017 12:57 pm**

Not exactly clear as how it should work but perhaps you can try:

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....
{/strip}{/function}

{if isset($nodes)}
{sub_menu data=$nodes depth=0}
{else}
no pages active yet
{/if}

Posted: **Tue Jun 06, 2017 1:04 pm**

Thanks. I had given that a try and just tested again with a copy/paste of your code (in case I had a typo in my example) but it doesn't output anything onto the page. Still just blank?

also: for the thread, I saw there's a typo on my closing </a tag. this was fixed adding the >.

edit: Any other ideas on how to display text when the menu is empty? Or maybe do I need to not do it within the navigator template, but within the page content instead where the menu is called? can that be done/easier?

Posted: **Tue Jun 06, 2017 1:35 pm**

Can you use count? Something like

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{if isset($nodes) && $nodes|count gt 0}
 {sub_menu data=$nodes depth=0}
{else}
 nothing to see here.
{/if}

Posted: **Tue Jun 06, 2017 3:01 pm**

Thanks for the idea, I had not tried that one. It didn't work on first attempt, but then I realized my page alias had changed, so the menu wasn't showing what it should show anyways. Once I fixed that in my page content, then added

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&& $nodes|count gt 0

to the navigation menu, the else statement now display if no pages are active!

Thanks all for the help! Excited to have this to be able to deploy in other scenarios as well to still have content when none exists yet

Posted: **Tue Jun 06, 2017 5:55 pm**

Use: {if !empty($nodes)} ... it's simpler and faster.

Posted: **Tue Jun 06, 2017 5:59 pm**

thanks @calguy1000 . made the update and working great

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