Manually get results

Cody Henderson

#141984

Is there a way to manually get the results, without having to use a results page.
I want to be able to create a query, use search and filter on it, and then access the results all in the backend.

I have a custom api that will accept a search term, build a query, and return the categories for the search term. I want to attach search and filter to this and then get the categories search and filter generates.

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Trevor Moderator

#142055

I am not entirely certain what you are doing with this, but WordPress needs to post the query to a page, which you could then use this to grab the query array:

$sf_current_query = $searchandfilter->get(7050)->current_query()->get_array();

Where you change the ID to the form ID of your form.

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Cody Henderson

#142940

I just want to use search and filter for the backend. Instead of search and filter posting the query to a page, I want to create and use it in the same scope.

Is any way I can call the results instead of waiting for them to post to me?

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Trevor Moderator

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Ross Moderator

#144371

Hi Cody

Off the top of my head, I’m not sure S&F will work as is in the backend (it was never designed for that).

S&F runs different code depending on whether you are in wp-admin or not.

Generally speaking though, you can attach S&F to any query you create. So there might be an option for you to create your query in an ajax call (S&F should work in wp-ajax, even though its technically in admin) and you could wrap your results as a JSON object, from which you would need to parse with Javascript and take any necessary actions after that .

In order to add S&F to your query you would need to add the argument search_filter_id.

eg:

$args = array(
    'post_type' => 'post',
    'search_filter_id' => 1234
);
$my_query = new WP_Query($args);

Hope that helps.

Best

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