pods + search&filter plugin

would you actually recommend to do a post page (Pods Admin->Components->Pages) and use the function find?

as shown in the documentation: https://pods.io/docs/code/pods/find/

I haven’t found a great example to bootstrap, there’s some documentation and examples, like:

https://pods.io/tutorials/using-pods-pages-advanced-content-types/
https://pods.io/forums/topic/simple-search-box/
http://webdesignforidiots.net/2013/04/pods-pages-and-templates-and-more-pages-oh-my/

For now i’ve roughly created a Pod Page with a form that displays the results on the same page. It looks like it should be better integrated with Pod Templates as it’s giving the following notice:

PHP Notice: Pod Page PHP code has been deprecated, please use WP Page Templates or hook into the pods_content filter instead of embedding PHP. has been deprecated since Pods version 2.1 with no alternative available. in

If somebody could create a proper example it would be great !

Anyways this might give you an idea:

<?php
/*
Template Name: Pod Page Template
*/

get_header(); ?>

<div id="primary" class="content-area">
    <div id="content" class="site-content" role="main">

        <header class="banner">
            <div class="shadow-wrapper">
                <h1 class="banner-title">Byara</h1>
            </div>
        </header><!-- .banner -->

        <div class="block entry-block">
            <div class="entry cf px-5">
                <h2>Search the collection</h2>
            </div>

            <form id="searchform" method="get" action="/new-byara">
                <input type="text" class="search-field" name="author" placeholder="Author" value="">
                <input type="text" class="search-field" name="title " placeholder="Title" value="">
                <input type="text" class="search-field" name="year" placeholder="Year" value="">
                <input type="text" class="search-field" name="abstract" placeholder="Abstract" value="">
                <input type="text" class="search-field" name="keywords" placeholder="Keywords" value="">
                <input type="submit" value="Search">
            </form>

            <div class="entry-content">
                <?php 
                $author = $_GET["author"];
                $title = $_GET['title'];
                $year = $_GET['year'];
                $abstract = $_GET['abstract'];
                $keywords = $_GET['keywords'];
                //if(isset($_GET["author"])) echo "\nauthor is set\n";
                //print_r($_GET);
                ?>
            </div>

            <?php
                //this is normally where the WP Loop would be. Instead we add a loop to get pods stuff 
                $mypod = pods('journal');
                // Here's how to use find()
                $params = array(
                    'limit' => 20, 
                    'page'  => 1, 
                    // Be sure to sanitize ANY strings going here
                    //'where' =>"author_analytic = '.$author.'"
                );
                $mypod->find($params);
                    
                ?>

            <table>
                <thead>
                    <tr>
                        <th>Author</th>
                        <th>Title</th>
                        <th>Link</th>
                    </tr>
                </thead>
                <tbody>
                    <?php
                    // Loop through items found
                    while ( $mypod->fetch() ) {
                        $journal_title= $mypod->field('title_analytic');
                        $permalink= $mypod->field('permalink');
                        echo "<tr>";
                        echo "<td>".$mypod->display( 'author_analytic' )."</td>";
                        echo "<td>".$mypod->display( 'title_analytic' ) ."</td>";
                        echo "<td>".$permalink.'</td>';
                        echo "</tr>";
                    }?>
                </tbody>
            </table>
            <?php echo $mypod->pagination();?>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

• This reply was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by allanext.

@keraweb Thank you for pointing out in the right direction, very appreciated !