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  • dann hanks
    (Private)  April 4, 2017 at 12:18 pm #101346

    Hi,
    I am using search & filter with ACF, I am hoping to add conditional elements to the search results if the search is a particular string.

    Example, I have a dropdown menu automatically generated by ACF lets say the options are:

    Banana
    Apple
    Pear

    … if ‘Banana’ was selected then the search url would be something like:

    website.com/?sfid=132396&_sfm_fruit=1

    So on the search results page, I would like to show a picture of a banana, if I had selected Apple, an apple… you get the picture.

    I was hoping there would be some way to include this through some conditional code?

    thanks.

    Trevor Moderator
    (Private)  April 4, 2017 at 5:19 pm #101424

    Yes. But the code may be complex. As long as you have access to the php page template for the results page, you can use the sf_query array to find the value and use that to conditionally show what you want by echoing HTML to the page.

    This thread discusses the technique for accessing the data:

    https://support.searchandfilter.com/forums/topic/results-displayed-results-count-searched-tag-associated-categories/

    dann hanks
    (Private)  April 5, 2017 at 12:22 pm #101540

    Hi Trevor, thanks for your reply, I am a little confused though – I’m finding hard to decypher the code from your link and apply it to my case…

    website.co.uk/?sfid=132396&_sfm_department=14

    Would be my search string, this searches a particular ‘department’, I would like to show div based on this department.

    so my code would be somthing like:

    if url = ?sfid=132396&_sfm_department=14

    echo : “<div>welcome to department 14</div>”

    I have found a way to do this with jQuery, the only issue I have with this method though is it looks for a particular url so if I wanted to show for: ?sfid=132396&_sfm_department=1 dpartment 1’s div, it would also show for ?sfid=132396&_sfm_department=11, ?sfid=132396&_sfm_department=12 etc etc as it contains ?sfid=132396&_sfm_department=1

    Trevor Moderator
    (Private)  April 5, 2017 at 12:30 pm #101543

    You could simply make 3 if statements in a row?

    dann hanks
    (Private)  April 5, 2017 at 12:42 pm #101545

    Hi, I found a better code for triggering the jquery to kick in on the url so its working for 1, 11, 12 differently which is great.

    My only issue now is that I can’t execute php code within the jQuery which is why I wanted to do it on the search results page rather than through javascript. What I actually want to hide/show is featured posts dependant on the department searched for. It would be great if I can do this on the search reults template instead of achieving it through jQuery.

    : )

    Dann

    Trevor Moderator
    (Private)  April 5, 2017 at 2:13 pm #101558
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    dann hanks
    (Private)  April 5, 2017 at 4:35 pm #101611

    Thanks for the Skype support Trevor! All sorted and running exactly the way I need it to.

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