Trigger search submit

Anonymous

#213745

Hi,

Is there a way to trigger the search form to submit aside from clicking the actual submit button?

I currently have functionality on my search results page, that if it finds matches for a particular post type, it’ll give the user a suggestion like, “We’ve found events related to your search term – click here to view results.”

I want the search form to re-submit/update the query – which is really the equivalent of manually using the post type filter dropdown and setting it to that post type if they used the submit button. But I want to trigger the same thing from a different button outside the form. Is that possible? Or do I have to hook into that form and add my custom button/text suggestion?

Thanks!

Trevor

#213805

Do you need to change a value in the form first?

Anonymous

#213834

Yes, I need to make sure the post type is set to a specific post type before it re-submits the form.

Anonymous

#213838

Actually I figured out a way. Since I’m working in WordPress, most of what I need is in the query vars. So I manually re-created the url that the form generates when it filters by post type, and just ensured that I was pulling the shortcode ID, the search term that is encoded dynamically so that it wasn’t hardcoded.

Worked like a charm without having to worry about hooks or JS or anything fancy. I added a setting on the admin so that I could add the ID of the shortcode and have it dynamically pull into the template on the shortcode call without having to hardcode that either. So it’s there as a fall back in case the shortcode ID isn’t present in the query vars.

Here is an example of what the code looks like, in case it helps someone:

$search_term        = get_search_query();
$get_shortcode_id   = Search_Helpers::get_sf_pro_shortcode_id();
$shortcode_id_query = isset( $wp_query->query_vars['sfid'] ) && ! empty( $wp_query->query_vars['sfid'] ) ? $wp_query->query_vars['sfid'] : $get_shortcode_id;
$raw_search_term    = rawurlencode( $search_term );

<div class="alert alert-info event">
					<p>We've found upcoming events related to your search term "<?php echo $search_term; ?>".
						<a href="<?php echo home_url() . '/?sfid=' . $shortcode_id_query . '&_sf_s=' . $raw_search_term . '&post_types=event'; ?>">
							Go to related events
							<span aria-hidden="true" class="glyphicon-chevron-right glyphicon"></span>
						</a>
					</p>
				</div>

Trevor

#213840

Thanks for sharing. Great to see you got it sorted.

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