Force selection?

Anonymous

#87483

Is there a way to force users to select at least one taxonomy before seeing search results? That is, I don’t want visitors to be able to see all results, with no filters at all. Is this possible?

Trevor

#87546

At this time, I think that the only way is if your form has a submit button, then you can use some of your own custom javascript to disable the submit button and add some js to the field to validate something has been selected, and then enable the submit button. You can find suitable jQuery code snippets that you might be able to re-purpose on CodeCanyon. Make sure it is jQuery you use, not general javascript.

Trevor

#87657

Hi Lisa

You can also let them search, but show them nothing (or a custom message) using this type of PHP code (change the number 1234 for the ID number of your search form and change the line echo '<div>Nothing to see here folks!</div>'; for whatever you want before the filter is used instead of the results – or remove for nothing at all):

global $searchandfilter;
$sf_current_query = $searchandfilter->get(1234)->current_query();
if ((!$sf_current_query->is_filtered())&&($sf_current_query->get_search_term()=="")) {
  echo '<div>Nothing to see here folks!</div>'; 
} else {
  // your theme template code here for the part that runs the loop, e.g. if ( $query->have_posts() ) .....
}

For example, if you were using the shortcode method. OK, if you have followed the documentation to make a copy of the results.php into a new folder called search-filter in your child theme or theme folder, then replace the contents of that template file with this:

<?php
/**
 * Search & Filter Pro 
 *
 * Sample Results Template
 * 
 * @package   Search_Filter
 * @author    Ross Morsali
 * @link      http://www.designsandcode.com/
 * @copyright 2015 Designs & Code
 * 
 * Note: these templates are not full page templates, rather 
 * just an encaspulation of the your results loop which should
 * be inserted in to other pages by using a shortcode - think 
 * of it as a template part
 * 
 * This template is an absolute base example showing you what
 * you can do, for more customisation see the WordPress docs 
 * and using template tags - 
 * 
 * http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags
 *
 */

global $searchandfilter;
$sf_current_query = $searchandfilter->get(1234)->current_query();
if ((!$sf_current_query->is_filtered())&&($sf_current_query->get_search_term()=="")) {
  echo '<div>Nothing to see here folks!</div>'; 
} else {
	
	if ( $query->have_posts() )
{
	?>
	
	Found <?php echo $query->found_posts; ?> Results<br />
	Page <?php echo $query->query['paged']; ?> of <?php echo $query->max_num_pages; ?><br />
	
	<div class="pagination">
		
		<div class="nav-previous"><?php next_posts_link( 'Older posts', $query->max_num_pages ); ?></div>
		<div class="nav-next"><?php previous_posts_link( 'Newer posts' ); ?></div>
		<?php
			/* example code for using the wp_pagenavi plugin */
			if (function_exists('wp_pagenavi'))
			{
				echo "<br />";
				wp_pagenavi( array( 'query' => $query ) );
			}
		?>
	</div>
	
	<?php
	while ($query->have_posts())
	{
		$query->the_post();
		
		?>
		<div>
			<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
			
			<p><br /><?php the_excerpt(); ?></p>
			<?php 
				if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) {
					echo '<p>';
					the_post_thumbnail("small");
					echo '</p>';
				}
			?>
			<p><?php the_category(); ?></p>
			<p><?php the_tags(); ?></p>
			<p><small><?php the_date(); ?></small></p>
			
		</div>
		
		<hr />
		<?php
	}
	?>
	Page <?php echo $query->query['paged']; ?> of <?php echo $query->max_num_pages; ?><br />
	
	<div class="pagination">
		
		<div class="nav-previous"><?php next_posts_link( 'Older posts', $query->max_num_pages ); ?></div>
		<div class="nav-next"><?php previous_posts_link( 'Newer posts' ); ?></div>
		<?php
			/* example code for using the wp_pagenavi plugin */
			if (function_exists('wp_pagenavi'))
			{
				echo "<br />";
				wp_pagenavi( array( 'query' => $query ) );
			}
		?>
	</div>
	<?php
}
else
{
	echo "No Results Found";
}
}
?>

Anonymous

#88392

Okay, I’ll give those a try. Thanks very much!

Trevor

#88494

Let me know how you get on, and if I can close this thread?

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