Deploying search results to a CPT single page

Anonymous

#270347

I’ve got my search and filter setup working perfectly on my front page (within Oxygen). It searchs/filters my CPT no problem.

However when I clicked through to a CPT single page I also have a new searchandfilter form/results here which basically does the same as the front page form but with an hard-coded meta_query to show related CPTs.

I have search results showing on a page but I can’t seem to action any ordering on it. I believe this is due to the ‘Results URL’. If I hard set the URL to one of my CPT urls then it works but, as you can guess, if I visit a different single page that ordering no longer works as the URL has changed.

I’ve tried to implement the below on the page but it doesn’t appear to work.

function dynamic_search_results( $url,  $sfid) {
	//if search form ID = 225, the do something with this query
	if($sfid==1636)
	{
      $url = get_the_permalink();
    }
  return $url;
}
add_filter( 'sf_ajax_results_url', 'dynamic_search_results', 10, 2 );

Can you give some guidance on how to setup a results with a dynamically changing URL.

Hope the above makes sense.

Thanks.

Trevor

#270422

I am not sure what you want is currently possible with our plugin, but I have referred your question to the plugin developer, Ross, for his input.

Anonymous

#270467

Thanks – appreciate the support.

Anonymous

#270482

I’ve managed to sort this and hopefully it will help someone who comes across this.

In order to be able to use the sf_ajax_results_url (or any of the url filters) it would appear that there is a check in the code to check if the search form has a ‘Results URL’ set. If it doesn’t then it doesn’t bother to kick in the URL filters. Purely because this filter is to ‘Modify’ URLs (as you say in the docs – apologies I missed this), however I wanted to set the URL completely with ‘get_the_permalink()’.

So….make sure you set a ‘Results URL’ in your searchform in order for your filter to be able to modify/override it.

Great plugin – works perfectly with Oxygen btw 🙂

Trevor

#270492

Thanks for letting me know and sharing. I will close this thread for now.

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