Adding search

Hi Folbert,

I’ve implemented search on a site myself along with this plugins filters. However since the “s” parameter sent the user to the search result page (might be different now) I added it as a custom parameter “search” instead keeping the user on the archive page.

In any case. There should be a few things to consider here. There are actions sprinkled throughout the plugin which you can use to add your input field.

if you want the search field to be inside the form you can use either
beautiful_actions_beginning_form or beautiful_actions_ending_form
and if you’d rather have it outside the form with its own submit button (but still inside the filter module) you can use beautiful_actions_before_form or beautiful_actions_after_form.

As for the second part of your solution there’s no action to use at the moment but I could easily add one inside that function so you wouldn’t have to modify the core files. Or you could just add your own template_redirect filter with a priority lower than 10.

function the_search_redirect(){

	if(isset($_POST['s'])) {
	  if (empty($_POST['s'])) {
		   unset($_GET['s']);
		  } else {
		    $_GET['s'] = $_POST['s'];
		}
	}

}
add_filter('template_redirect', 'the_search_redirect', 9, 1);

I just tried it on my dev site and seem to work the same so in doing like my suggestion you wont have to modify plugin files ??

Great. Thanks for the tip about template_redirect.

I had no problems using the s-parameter (I placed the text field in the same form as the taxonomy-drop-downs). But your input gave me the idea to use the posts_where filter so I could get even more control over what is searched when the text field is filled out. That way I can also rename the text field to whatever i like.

So now, an URL like “https://site.void/medarbetare/position/position-1/kontor/malmo/?namn=xavier” works just as expected.

I saw the actions enabling me to put elements in the form but I think that I will need even more control over the html in the form. Will keep it in mind though.

Thank you again for your work with the plugin.

Yepp that’s pretty much exactly how I use it too except with a custom search function using relevanssi ??

In what way do you need more control over the HTML?

The major “issue” is that I need the text field to appear right before the submit button. I want to avoid using CSS to change the order of things since it would make no sense for users of screen readers to have the submit button appear before the text field.

I do understand that it is impossible to implement actions for every use case out there ??

Ah I see..

Well in a way it makes sense to be able to add input either at the beginning of the inputs or just before the submit button.

Hey,

Just letting you know that there’s now more actions to add your own inputs/html to the filter module. you might like the new “beautiful_actions_before_submit_button” action or the “beautiful_actions_ending_form_inner”.

There is also a new action inside the plugins redirect_template function
“beautiful_actions_before_redirection” which occurs before the append_get_parameters function (so you can use that instead of a custom template_redirect function or modifying the plugin files.

In short, you should be able to do what you need now without modifying plugin files ??

?? Thank you for adding these actions.

Will update and try them out immediately.