How to show the currently selected title only

Anonymous

#108194

I have managed to get my AJAX form to show the currently selected category title, the only issue is the string also contains “categories:” and “category:” before the title but I only want the actual category name, is there a way to just get the category title without the extraneous words before it please?

Thanks

Trevor

#108282

What code are you using to get them? You can post code here using back ticks (not quotes) before and after the code; on my keyboard it is the key next to the ‘1’.

Anonymous

#108331

<?php
global $searchandfilter;
$sf_current_query = $searchandfilter->get(504)->current_query();
echo $sf_current_query->get_field_string("_sft_category");
?>

The above code gets the current category, but how to do it without the extraneous word(s) before it?

Thanks

Trevor

#108367

You would need to dig deeper in the $sf_current_query array I suspect. You can echo the array to a page with a PHP print_r function inside pre tags.

Anonymous

#108431

Okay, I have used the following code to display the array:

<?php echo '<pre>',print_r($sf_current_query),'</pre>';?>

This displays the following:

Search_Filter_Active_Query Object
(
    [sfid] => 504
    [is_set:Search_Filter_Active_Query:private] => 1
    [query_array:Search_Filter_Active_Query:private] => Array
        (
        )

    [form_fields:Search_Filter_Active_Query:private] => Array
        (
            [_sft_category] => Array
                (
                    [type] => category
                    [input_type] => radio
                    [heading] => Categories
                    [accessibility_label] => 
                    [all_items_label] => All Articles
                    [show_count] => 1
                    [hide_empty] => 1
                    [hierarchical] => 0
                    [include_children] => 1
                    [drill_down] => 0
                    [sync_include_exclude] => 1
                    [combo_box] => 0
                    [operator] => or
                    [order_by] => default
                    [order_dir] => asc
                    [exclude_ids] => 
                    [taxonomy_name] => category
                )

        )

(plus lots more)

So what I want is the taxonomy name field but I have no idea how to access this field and echo into my template? Any help here would be much appreciated, I understand this may be out of the scope of support but if it’s something simple that you might know you could really help me out a lot.

Thanks

Trevor

#108444

If you echo this:

$sf_current_query['_sft_category']['taxonomy_name']

What does it give you?

Anonymous

#108447

<?php
global $searchandfilter;
$sf_current_query = $searchandfilter->get(504)->current_query();
echo $sf_current_query['_sft_category']['taxonomy_name'];
?>

This code gives me an error… although it does look like this should work?

Trevor

#108461

Try this then:

<?php
global $searchandfilter;
$sf_current_query = $searchandfilter->get(504)->current_query();
echo $sf_current_query['_sft_category'][0]['taxonomy_name'];
?>

Anonymous

#108464

Hmm, it’s throwing the same error. In the original snippet there is “->get_field_string” do you think this has something to do with it?

Trevor

#108481

Ah, I see the erro. Not sure how many steps back you will need to take though.

$sf_current_query = $searchandfilter->get(504)->current_query()->get_array();

And look at what is in THAT array using print_r.

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