Get rid of results or "no results" message when search and results are on same page

I put my search form and the results on the same page. However, when the page first loads, I get either (1) a display of records (if the WHERE clause is set to 0=0), or (2) a "no results found" message (if the WHERE clause is set to 0<>0).

I don't want either (1) or (2) to display when the page first loads. Is there a way to accomplish this?

You can accomplish this by passing an additional url variable and set this to true or false. You can then set a show if section around the results/message section to check that url variable to see if its true or false, and display the results/message section. Also if the url variable is not set the results/message section should not be shown.

Hi Jimmy,

Forgive my ignorance, but I don't know how to pass an additional url variable and set this to true or false. Do you have some instructions on passing additional url variables?

The url variable is just the variables that you can append to the end of the url.

someurl.com?myurlvar=true&secondurlvar=false

Here is a PHP block that will display a variable named test:
<?php echo $_GET['test']; ?>

You can check if the variable is set by calling the isset function call around the variable like this:
isset($_GET['test']);