Accessing the Search Data

Anonymous

#95951

Hello,
when I try to output currently selected filter values, this is working:

echo $sf_current_query->get_field_string(“_sfm_category”);

But this is not working, as well as any filter that start with _sfm:
echo $sf_current_query->get_field_string(“_sfm_character”);

What can be reason?

Anonymous

#95952

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Trevor

#95968

Do you mean echo $sf_current_query->get_field_string("_sft_category"); with a t and not an m?

Does the guidance and examples in the documentation help?

Anonymous

#95973

Sorry for the mistake, I mean echo $sf_current_query->get_field_string("_sft_category"); with t

I did things as in the documentation, but cant output any _sfm filters

Anonymous

#95975

I found some workaround, to display currently selected value:

$tmp = $sf_current_query->get_array();
echo $tmp["_sfm_character"]["active_terms"][0]["name"];

But it may be a bug in get_field_string method from documentation, which is not working in my case:

echo $sf_current_query->get_field_string("_sfm_character");

Trevor

#95979

category is obviously a taxonomy, but is character a custom field?

Anonymous

#95984

character is a custom field in custom type, created with ACF.
In the search form settings, this is a “post meta” field

Trevor

#95997

Custom fields, because of their variable data content and types, are returned as arrays, hence the examples in the documentation.

Taxonomies always return strings. If you have set the form element for a taxonomy to have a single choice, it will be a string that is returned, if you have set it for multi-choice, then it would return an array.

Does that explain why what you tired worked for one field in the form and not the other?

Anonymous

#98546

Thank you for your assistance, I am not sure that I understood how it works, but anyway I managed to reach all the data with arrays, it always work, so no problem.
We can close that topic.

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