robmuzoHi I am looking to implement a custom search on my site.
It could be done based on custom taxonomies or custom meta via a custom post type.
What I need to do is have a search function what filters by:
1.Keyword
2.dropdown option 1 (Based on Taxonomies or Custom Meta)
3.dropdown option 2 (Based on Taxonomies or Custom Meta)
Could anyone point me in what would be the best option to go with Taxonomies or Custom Meta and how I might go about creating this search?
So far I have come up with this for meta:
<form name="search" action="" method="get">
<select name="option">
<?php
$metakey = 'option';
$options = $wpdb->get_col($wpdb->prepare("SELECT DISTINCT meta_value FROM $wpdb->postmeta WHERE meta_key = %s ORDER BY meta_value ASC", $metakey) );
if ($options) {
foreach ($options as $option) {
echo "<option value=\"" . $option . "\">" . $option . "</option>";
}
}
?>
</select>
<input type="submit" value="search" />
</form>and this if using Taxonomies:
<form role="search" method="get" id="searchform" action="<?php bloginfo('siteurl'); ?>">
<div>
<label class="screen-reader-text" for="s">Search for:</label>
<input type="text" value="" name="s" id="s" />
<br/><?php wp_dropdown_categories( 'taxonomy=option1' ); ?>
<?php wp_dropdown_categories( 'taxonomy=option2' ); ?>
<input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" value="Search" />
</div>
</form>I think I would prefer to go down the meat root.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
