Search variable ?s= versus _sf_s

Anonymous

#29533

Hi Ross,

I found a minor problem with the renaming of the search variable to ‘_sf_s’ and need your input on a possible solution.

The problem: Some searches on our site use the default WP search box (for various reasons we can’t use the S&F Pro search box). Results are displayed on the standard search.php template, and on the search results page we have our Filters setup. One of the filters is to start a ‘new search’ using an S&F Pro search box.

If a person then starts a new search, the page does not display the new search term, because the template is setup to display the search term using this PHP snippet:

<?php printf( esc_html__( ‘Search Results for: %s’, ‘quark’ ), ‘<span>“’ . get_search_query() . ‘”</span>’ ); ?>

As you can see, the search term is represented by %s, which comes initially from the original search (so that when they first hit the results page they see “Search Results for: [whatever their original search term is]”

SO can I add a variable to replace that %s and use an array that encompasses both ?s= and _sf_s ?

Something like

$x = array(‘?s=’,’_sf_s’) and then change %s to %x ?

I’m not a coder, but I need to find a way for search terms to be displayed to the searcher when they get to the results page from a WP search as well as a S&F Pro filter…….

Your thoughts?

Thanks,
Trisha

Ross Moderator

#29536

Hey Trisha

Something like this should work:

<?php 
	$search_term = "";
	
	//get global S&F object
	global $searchandfilter;
	$current_query = $searchandfilter->get(1526)->current_query();
	
	//check to see if a term has been found under the regular WP variable
	//if not, try the S&F object
	
	if(get_search_query()!="")
	{
		$search_term = get_search_query();
	}
	else if($current_query->get_search_term()!="")
	{
		$search_term = $current_query->get_search_term();
	}
	
	printf( esc_html__( 'Search Results for: %s', 'quark' ), '<span>"' . $search_term . '"</span>' ); 
	
?>

I didn’t test it yet but looks sound.

Thanks

Anonymous

#29573

Thanks Ross – that worked perfectly!!!

🙂

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