I investigated this issue: looks like the problem is in lines 98-100:
if(preg_match('/^[a-zA-Z0-9,]+$/',$sanitized)) {
update_option('iusib_meta_fields',$sanitized);
}
I’m no regex expert, so I don’t know what’s the purpose of the expression, but the update_option function just does not run, no matter what you put into the textarea.
I removed the “if” statement altogether (line 98 and 100), but this threw another error for a deprecated function, this time in line 54. So I fixed that as well.
These are the code updates:
Line 54:
$iusib_add = " OR meta_key='".implode("' OR meta_key='",esc_sql($iusib_cma))."'";
Lines 98-100 (change the 3 lines with the following one):
update_option('iusib_meta_fields',$sanitized);
Now the plugin works as expected.
By the way, this is a wonderful function that should be included in the core IMHO.
Thanks so much for your code LucaRosaldi – This helped a lot when I was wondering what was going on as well.
Much appreciated!
Roger Sanchez
I too am having issues with user meta fields not working properly in the search. I tried reinstalling the plugin fresh (v 1.2.6) and implementing LucaRosaldi’s code modifications, unfortunately I’m not having any luck getting proper search results from the meta fields.
Earlier, I also tried this: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-first-and-last-name and no luck there either.
I’m not sure whether that has an influence over the search results but my meta fields have been set up through the WP-Members plugin:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-members/
I would love to know how to solve this one.
Thanks,
Mike S
I ran into this issue as well. I found that entering something like “abc,def,ghi” would save properly, but something like “billing_first_name,billing_last_name” would not. So I turned to the regular expression used. I added the underscore (_) character to the end of the regex and it saved properly: /^[a-zA-Z0-9,]+$/
Hi dale3h,
Thanks for your response. Since I’m not super savvy with regular expressions, can you specify exactly where the underscore went?
I’m not sure if the end means:
/^[a-zA-Z0-9,]+$/_
or
/^[a-zA-Z0-9,_]+$/
or something else.
Also, was this with LucaRosaldi’s fix or without?
