"Showing results under X and Y and Z"

Anonymous

#14685

Hello,

Just a quick question on where to get started to display a heading sentence before displaying the results, inside search.php, so that it states something like_

Displaying results under CATEGORY-1 and META-1 and TAG-1

Should I parse the url, then get the category slug, then query to get the category name?

Ross Moderator

#14688

Hey Marc

You’ve got the right idea.

Depends on where you are needing to do it, but you could check the $wp_query->query object, which will have those vars from the URL.

Just to note, S&F adds a prefix of _sft_ to taxonomies and _sfm_ for meta fields which you may need to strip before processing.

Here is a similar post where I’ve written a function for parsing taxonomies to get you started:

https://support.searchandfilter.com/forums/topic/how-to-show-cats-title-in-search-result/

🙂

Anonymous

#14966

Hi Ross,
Thank you, you showed me the light 😉
Here is my approach (I am using the Advanced Custom Fields plugin for meta values):

<?php 
          $copy = array();
          $is_search = false;
  	  $search_query = $wp_query->query;

          // META
          if($search_query['_sfm_location']){
            $field = get_field_object('location', false, array('load_value' => false));
            foreach ($field['choices'] as $key => $value) {
              if($key == $search_query['_sfm_location']){
                $copy[] = $value;
              }
            }
            $is_search = true;
          } 

          // TAXONOMY
          if($search_query['_sft_project_category']){
            $term = get_term_by('slug', $search_query['_sft_project_category'], 'project_category');
            $copy[] = $term->name;
            $is_search = true;
          }
  ?>

<?php if($is_search): ?>
  <p>Searching filters for: <?php echo implode(', ', $copy); ?></p>
<?php else: ?>
  <p>A simple copy when if no search.</p>
<?php endif; ?>

Ross Moderator

#15004

Thanks for that!

Does that grab the names of the values from ACF automatically?

Anonymous

#15035

Yes!
get_fields() and get_field_object() does grab all custom fields info
http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/get_fields/

Ross Moderator

#15036

Ohhh lovely! Hadn’t got round to checking ACF functions yet but they’ll help with grabbing the names automatically in some updates I’m working on 😉

Anonymous

#21700

Hi Ross,

I am back on this topic.
I created a dropdown field with your form, then filled it with some options.

Now i want to retrieve those options to match them to $wp_query->query and display the proper heading statement.

Thanks!

Ross Moderator

#21816

Hey Marc,

Not sure I follow, the code you placed above is what I think you mean, but then that must mean I’m getting confused…!

If you can please elaborate a little more? 🙂

Thanks

Anonymous

#21823

Sorry, i was too straightforward. I put it another way:

Imagine I create a new form. Create a new field, type Post Meta. Then i choose to Display my Meta Field with a dropdown, which I manually fill it some options: value_1, label_1, .... value_n, label_n. Done.

Whan I submit the form and go to a new page, i will e able to retrieve the value_n via wp_query, but then how can I get the corresponding label_n

Thank you!

Ross Moderator

#22167

Hey Marc

I thought thats what you were explaining all the way at the top.

S&F doesn’t have a way to get this info, for example, if it was a taxonomy you would use – https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_term_by against the value.

I just did a quick google and found this:

http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/140825/37783 – check step 3 of this answer RE label – I guess this is an ACF question really.

Thanks

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