Filter Query Args

Christopher Bessler

#37123

Hello Support,
I’m trying to filter search results based on a taxonomy item. I’m trying to this code that I found in the forum, but I can’t get it to work even just using $query_args[‘order’] = ‘desc’;

What am I doing wrong here? Below is the the code I’ve been trying.

function sf_filter_query_args( $query_args, $sfid ) {

if($sfid==3906) {
$query_args[‘member-category’] = get_queried_object()->name;
//$query_args[‘order’] = ‘desc’;
}
return $query_args;
}

add_filter( ‘sf_edit_query_args’, ‘sf_filter_query_args’, 10, 2 );

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Christopher Bessler

#37151

OK,
I’m able to get this to filter:

function member_query_args( $query_args, $sfid ) {

if($sfid==3906) {
$query_args = array(
‘member-category’ => ‘hotels-motels’
);
}
return $query_args;
}

How can I go about dynamically placing the value of member-category ?

add_filter( ‘sf_edit_query_args’, ‘member_query_args’, 10, 2 );

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Ross Moderator

#37160

Hey there

It really depends on how you would detect the current “memeber-category”?

Thanks

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Christopher Bessler

#37173

Hi Ross,
the search is being performed from the taxonomy-member-category.php template. My whole goal is to be able to only search posts/content from within the current member-category.

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Ross Moderator

#37201

Hi Christopher

So the question is, how do you detect the “current member-category”.

This is nothing to do with S&F – its something in your setup you need to figure out.

“How do I get the current member category in to a variable?”

Because once you can do this, you can add it to the code above:

function member_query_args( $query_args, $sfid ) {

	$current_member_category = get_current_member_category();
	
	if(empty($current_member_category))
	{ // so some kind of sanity check to make sure we got one
		return $query_args;
	}
	
	if($sfid==3906) {
		$query_args = array(
			'member-category' => $current_member_category
		);
	}
	return $query_args;
}

Now here, I made up a function get_current_member_category – this is something you would have to implement yourself – as I have no idea how to do something so specific in your environment.

Thanks

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Ross Moderator

#37202

This might help: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12289169/how-do-i-get-current-taxonomy-term-id-on-wordpress

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Christopher Bessler

#37240

Hi Ross,
thanks for all of the great input. Would this function run from the taxonomy-member-category.php template where the shortcode is placed or would it be happening on the search.php template? I believe the get_queried_object()->term_id; would only work if the query filter were taking place on the taxonomy-member-category.php template.

Maybe it would work if the search never left taxonomy-member-category.php template. Is there a way of having search results display within the same page that the search is happening?

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Christopher Bessler

#37242

Ross,
I just tested this and found that if I display results using the search.php then the filter can’t use the get_queried_object()->name; , but if I display results using the shortcode method within the same taxonomy template, the get_queried_object()->name; is usable for the query filter.

Here’s what I currently have:

function member_query_args( $query_args, $sfid ) {
	
	$current_member_category = get_queried_object()->name;
	
  if($sfid==3906) {
	 $query_args = array(
    'member-category' => $current_member_category
	);
  }
  return $query_args;
}

add_filter( 'sf_edit_query_args', 'member_query_args', 10, 2 );

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Christopher Bessler

#37257

So the query filter only seems to work until a search is made or pagination is selected. See my link below. I am currently using S&F to display the posts.

As soon as you make a search, it no longer filters by the current member-category. In this example only posts in hotels and motels are being queried until the search takes place.

http://selkirkloop.org/wordpress/member-category/lodging/hotels-motels/

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Christopher Bessler

#37268

Update: pagination appears to be working.

If Member Regions taxonomy on http://selkirkloop.org/wordpress/member-category/lodging/hotels-motels/ is dropped down the accurate count shows until an option is selected. As soon as an option is selected, the search reverts back to searching all posts instead of the filtered $current_member_category .

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