News article page doesn't 404

Can you check if the article page doesn't exist before the perch runtime, or html is output?

Im currently doing it like this:

<?php $html = perch_blog_post(perch_get('s'), true);
    if ($html) {
        echo $html;
    } else { ?>
        header('Location: /page-not-found');
        exit;
} ?>

Ah ok, straight after the runtime works! Thanks very much for your help

What code did you end up with here?

I'm testing this, added after the Perch runtime

<?php $html = perch_blog_post(perch_get('s'), true);
    if ($html) {
//do nothing
    } else { header('Location: /page-not-found');
        exit;
} ?>

It's working but wanted to compare with what you have. Thanks.

This discussion was really helpful to me, but I ended up in a slightly different place that worked and thought I would share.

I had a similiar problem where if I navigated to a non-existent page in the /blog subdirectory (e.g. https://mydomain.com/blog/mynonexistentpage) I didn't get the 404 page I spec'ed in my .htaccess file, but instead got the /blog/post.php page with no content except my global header and footer layouts.

I edited my /blog/post.php file such that my 404 page was included if $html didn't exist, otherwise post content was included as usual. It looks something like this and works great!

<?php if (!defined('PERCH_RUNWAY')) include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/perch/runtime.php'); ?>

<?php 

    $html = perch_blog_post(perch_get('s'), true);
    if ($html) {

?>

// typical contents of post.php here

<?php

    } else { 

        header($_SERVER['SERVER_PROTOCOL'] . ' 404 Not Found');
        include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/404.html');

    } 
?>

The one downside of this is that I’m actually managing the content of my 404 with Perch. 404.html is just a static snapshot of that Perch managed 404.php. When I included 404.php it kinda worked, but my 404.php content regions were undefined. Seems like there must be a way to pass my 404 content into 404.php with perch_content_custom, but my attempts failed.

This is what I tried in that else statement that didn't work, but perhaps folks will see what I’m trying to do here and have some ideas.

<?php

    } else {

    header($_SERVER['SERVER_PROTOCOL'] . ' 404 Not Found');
    perch_content_custom('Page Subtitle', array(
            'page'=>'/404.php'
    ));
    perch_content_custom('Page Content', array(
            'page'=>'/404.php'
    ));
    include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/404.php'); 
    // Half way there? Is there any way to get the 404.php content inserted into this include?

    } 
?>

My apologies, Rachel — my intention wasn't to repoen this thread, but rather to append a solution that I had found for folks who might find this thread in the future. Maybe it was something better shared on the Slack chat? Sorry, I should have been more clear about this not being an official request for help from the support team. I shouldn't have muddied the waters with the "and one more thing I'm sitll wondering about" piece.