Show message if no entries are present in a collection

[architchandra]

I'm trying to display entries from a collection in a template using the collection tag. I'm using aliasing as described in the docs to render a <ul> tag only if entries are present.

However, I also want to display a message on the lines of No entries found. if no entries exist in the collection. I can't figure out how to do that using the collection tag.

Here's the code I'm using:

{{ collection :from='collectionSrc' as='entries' redirects='true' }}
    <ul>
        {{ entries }}
            <li class="mb-8 last:mb-0 max-w-prose mx-auto">
                {{# Some markup here #}}
            </li>
        {{ /entries }}
    </ul>
{{ /collection }}

Any help here would be amazing. Thank you!

[architchandra]

Have been able to figure this out, with a lot of help from @duncanmcclean on Discord. Letting this stay in case it can help someone else later.

Using the no_results variable available inside the collection loop does the trick.

{{ collection :from='collectionSrc' as='entries' redirects='true' }}
    {{ if no_results }}
        <p>
          No entries found.
        </p>
    {{ else }}
        <ul>
            {{ entries }}
                <li class="mb-8 last:mb-0 max-w-prose mx-auto">
                    {{# Some markup here #}}
                </li>
            {{ /entries }}
        </ul>
    {{ /if }}
{{ /collection }}