keep the search request

Anonymous

#137538

hello

first thank for the nice plugin it’s a real time saver and good programmation.
I have a question but not sure if I should ask you or to developper of theme I am using.
I have a custom search button already in my theme (classiera),
once I request something I get the search results
I inserted as a tool bar the custom filter from search-filter-pro (by adding this line <?php echo do_shortcode(‘[searchandfilter id=”285381″]’); ?> in search.php in my child theme

If I want to apply filters I need to re enter the searched word, is there a way to pre fill the keyword search. ideally I want to skip the part where I have to renter the search keyword.

Thank you in advance

Trevor

#137548

If your theme sends the request as ours does, e.g. http://mysite.com/search/?_sf_s=hello

That would be a matter of editing the theme template(s). You should always use a child theme if you do this, unless your theme is entirely bespoke.

Anonymous

#137552

Hell Trevor,

thank you for the quick answer…

How can I check this ?
I think I see something related to this in the theme at some point there is those lines :

$args = array('post_type' => 'post',
'post_status' => 'publish',
's'   => $keyword,
'posts_per_page' => -1,
'category_name' => $catSearchID,
'meta_query' => array('relation' => 'AND',$searchQueryPrice,$searchQueryCountry,$searchQueryState,$searchQueryCity,$searchCondition,$searchQueryCustomFields,),);

so I guess I need to use the ‘s’, right ?
but then how do I tell the plugin that the search is ‘s’ and not yours (_sd_s I think)

sorry to disturb with stupid questions…I am no real programmer, I am a graphic designer learning the hard way programming php and wordpress

Trevor

#137560

Is that in the search.php template. Somewhere in our forum the developer has posted an answer. I need to find it for you.

Trevor

#137639

I have a feeling that this reply was what I was looking for. It was in reply to a similar question, but Ross’ reply was private, so I have grabbed part of the reply that applies (sort of):

This is not really a S&F feature, but its quite simple to do – I wasn’t 100% sure so I didn’t make the change myself:

In your header.php file you must modify the search form.

On line 437 you have this:

<form role="search" method="get" id="searchform" action="<?php echo home_url( '/' ); ?>">

This means all the searches go to your home_url, to send searches somewhere else, update it with the page you want – in this case the results url, so change this to:

<form role="search" method="get" id="searchform" action="<?php echo home_url( 'results' ); ?>">

Now the search is going the right place, what needs to happen next is the correct query param is added to the URL. S&F doesn’t use ?s=searchterm it uses ?_sf_s=searchterm – which means you need to update your search input field – and rename this from name="s" to name="_sf_s".

For some reason in your header code I see a strange if/else on the field (so there are two versions) – so I would update both lines 441 and 444.

So line 441 would become

<input type="text" placeholder="<?php _e( 'Search', 'squarecode' ); ?>" value="<?php echo $searchresults; ?>" name="_sf_s" id="s" />

and line 444 would become

<input type="text" value="" name="_sf_s" id="s" placeholder="<?php _e( 'Search', 'squarecode' ); ?>" />

Can you see what he means by this (not directly applicable to you, but the header.php files is where your search box is located, yes?

Anonymous

#137812

it looks like it might save my life yes !
I think it not header .php but what ever it s for sure in some php template which I should be able to find. Ok great for the help

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