I am a fool lol yes that's exactly what I needed to do and actually did it for another page....I was over thinking the solution I was going to do a redirect to be honest to the home page since there be nothing to display on the product page if there are no results. But can do an if statement. I think I had in my mind to do some type of condition at the top of the page above the HTML body where all my other php resides. A little bit like what ecart does as I've noticed redirects if no basket etc.
Chris