Filtering Pods by custom field

Hi @nathalie75

Have you checked the video?
It will give you some examples on how to implement filters in your query.

Cheers, Jory

Hi Jory,

which one do you mean?
Thanks for your help.

Nathalie

The one on the page you’ve mentioned: https://pods.io/docs/code/pods/filters/

EDIT: Sorry, you’d need this page: https://docs.pods.io/code/pods/find/

Cheers, Jory

• This reply was modified 5 years ago by Jory Hogeveen.

I will have a look, thanks!

Hi Jory,

I am not a native english speaker and no PHP developer that’s why this video is very difficult for me to understand (except “don’t worry be happy!” ?? ).
And I am not sure it would help me: my problem is not finding the right code but understanding what to do with this piece of code. Where shall I use it?
Have a nice day.

Nathalie

Hi @nathalie75

I understand but please keep in mind that though we can support and help you with Pods, we will not build your customization for you. If you need custom work to be done and aren’t comfortable with coding yourself I’d advice you to hire a developer.

What you need is to create a custom search box and let that input change your results created with Pods. Relatively easy task for a developer.

The video I’ve posts is to help you how to modify the parameters in order to find the correct results. It will not generate a search box nor handle search input data. Such functionality is not available in Pods at the moment.
You could take a look at FacetWP for such features! https://facetwp.com/

Cheers, Jory

Hi Jory,

ok. Facetwp is a bit expensive for me (or my customer) but it’s good to know it would be the best way.

Many greetings

Nathalie

No problem, good luck with your project!

Cheers, Jory

Hi @nathalie75

I’m very sorry, I was just looking at the shortcodes parameters for another topic and suddenly found a feature I didn’t know that even existed through our filters parameter.

If you just add the filters=1 argument (eg: Filters = true) it adds a search box on top of your results!
You can even change the location with the filters_location parameter (before or after) and add a label through the filters_label parameter.

Again, sorry for me not searching thoroughly enough. Even though I work with Pods for over 4 years I never actually use the shortcodes for my own projects.
Hope it helps!

Cheers, Jory

Hi Jory,

thanks for the information.
The search box is working for the post title (maybe for the post content too, I don’t know, I don’t have any) but not for the custom fields (for example in my case the city or country of the person) so it’s no great use for me.
In the shortcode documentation https://pods.io/docs/learn/shortcodes/pods/ there is the information “A comma separated list of field names (relationship only fields)” in the “Details” for the “filters” parameter but it can not be since the filters parameter is boolean.
Have a nice day.

Nathalie

Hi @nathalie75
Correct, for more search/filter types a shortcode isn’t flexible enough. You’d have to use PHP to create such views (as shown in the documentation pages).
Cheers, Jory