Filter form filters throwing an error

Thanks for the notice.
Please file a bug with the new error, your Pods package export, and any additional useful information, like the PHP code snippet in your original post.

Closing topic due to no reply, feel free to re-open if you still need help!

Cheers, Jory

Hi, this problem still exist. Our search functionality has not worked for months now. Is there any other way to display a filterable list of search results?

https://facetwp.com

Is it not possible anymore just using Pods?

No, it’s just difficult to debug the error over forum posts.

See https://support.pods.io/chat/ #support and #dev-chat channels for easier code discussion.

I used the exact example you provide in your docs here:

https://docs.pods.io/code/pods/filters/

It has the same issue, The keyword search is working, but now the filters have stopped working, throwing an error if any dropdown option is selected other than the default option.

Here is the PHP I used:

    <?php
    $pod = pods( 'athletes' );
    // Output a filter form that shows two drop-downs for two relationship fields and the submit button text says 'Go'
    echo $pod->filters( array( 
    'fields' => array( 'discipline', 'nationality' ), 
    'label' => 'Go' 
    ) );
    // Get the items, search is automatically handled
    $pod->find();
    // Output the list of the items found
    echo '<ul>';
    // Loop through items found
    while ( $pod->fetch() ) {
        echo "<li>" . $pod->display( 'post_title' ) . '</li>';
    }
    echo '</ul>';
    // Add some pagination
    echo $pod->pagination(); ?>

Here is the page I used for testing…
https://awakeningfighters.com/searchtest/

If you search for Lucy it works, but if you select any of the filters it errors.

To further debug this particular issue, can you submit an official bug report and include your Pods Package (Pods Admin > Components > Migrate Packages) information so we can replicate your exact configuration?

https://github.com/pods-framework/pods/issues/new?assignees=&labels=Type%3A+Bug&template=bug-report.yml

This doesn’t happen in all cases so knowing exactly what you are using could help us uncover the exact cause.

I’ll continue testing to see if I can reproduce the problem on my side.

Good news — I was able to find the case where this breaks and have code that will be released in Pods 2.8.9 that totally resolves it.

Once we release it, if you’d like to keep giving Pods a shot here — we’d love to know whether it resolves it for you or if you have any further issues that we should address.

I’m preparing the release for today if all goes well in my final testing of other issues we want to be sure are also addressed in this release.

Either way — thank you for your patience throughout this time and I’m sorry about your experience with this particular problem.

Thanks for your help and sorry for the bad review, I was just frustrated. I’ll change it back to 5 stars again. I really appreciate all the work you guys do on a free plugin and we’ve used it for 8 years or so without any issues, so my review was unfair.

The release will go out this week, I’m continuing to go through other reports to see if anything else needs to be included and also double-checking a few things that we fixed that have not had confirmation of resolution on.

Thanks for your patience.

Just an update here, we’re done with the code and testing on the release. We’re writing the changelog notes and will have it out as soon as that’s done.

Pods 2.8.9 is out now