Title: Multi-Category Search Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # Multi-Category Search * Resolved [adhanaraj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adhanaraj/) * (@adhanaraj) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-category-search/) * Hey there guys! * Just trying to figure this out – is there a way to have more that one category box to search from? A lot of my events have two or three categories they fall under and I would love to be able to filter them. I tried just duplicating the category box a few times and then filtering a la * ``` 0, 'orderby' =>'name', 'exclude_tree' => '1407, 1412, 35', 'name' => 'category', 'hierarchical' => true, 'taxonomy' => EM_TAXONOMY_CATEGORY, 'show_option_none' => get_option('dbem_search_form_categories_label'), 'class'=>'em-events-search-category boxit')); EM_Object::ms_global_switch_back(); //if switched above, switch back ?> 0, 'orderby' =>'name', 'exclude_tree' => '1403, 1412, 35', 'name' => 'category', 'hierarchical' => true, 'taxonomy' => EM_TAXONOMY_CATEGORY, 'show_option_none' => get_option('dbem_search_form_categories_label'), 'class'=>'em-events-search-category boxit')); EM_Object::ms_global_switch_back(); //if switched above, switch back ?> 0, 'orderby' =>'name', 'exclude_tree' => '1403, 1407, 35', 'name' => 'category', 'hierarchical' => true, 'taxonomy' => EM_TAXONOMY_CATEGORY, 'show_option_none' => get_option('dbem_search_form_categories_label'), 'class'=>'em-events-search-category boxit')); EM_Object::ms_global_switch_back(); //if switched above, switch back ?> ``` * but then the search breaks. Help would be great! Thanks. * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/events-manager/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/events-manager/) Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) * Thread Starter [adhanaraj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adhanaraj/) * (@adhanaraj) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-category-search/#post-3490029) * I guess I should be more specific with the search breaking part – it only accepts the value from the last one (as would be expected, I guess) * [agelonwl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angelonwl/) * (@angelonwl) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-category-search/#post-3490124) * hi, * sorry for the confusion, is this using the events search form? I think this snippet is a good start – [http://pastebin.com/V96b5RN9](http://pastebin.com/V96b5RN9) * e.g. you can put your categories in an array and then used it in the category search attribute * Thread Starter [adhanaraj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adhanaraj/) * (@adhanaraj) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-category-search/#post-3490138) * Yep, its to do with the events search form. Thanks for the start, taking a crack at it now :). Just stuck it in and playing around with it, will come back and update if I make any progress. As a quick dry run (and a hope for an easy fix!) I just tried swapping out the taxonomy from tags to categories, but that (of course) didn’t work). Just noted your ‘e.g’ comment, going to try to see if I can figure it out. * Thread Starter [adhanaraj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adhanaraj/) * (@adhanaraj) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-category-search/#post-3490139) * I absolutely lied, there definitely was an easy fix. Had to change $args[‘tag’] to $args[‘category’]. Thanks so much for your help, you are a god among men. * EDIT: Nope, I lied. Did not work 🙁 * Thread Starter [adhanaraj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adhanaraj/) * (@adhanaraj) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-category-search/#post-3490150) * Just running some more updates for you guys :). * I’ve got the search to work to an extent. It currently treats the three category boxes as an OR command, as opposed to a AND. * I’ve uploaded what I’ve done to a pastebin here. [http://pastebin.com/EMNmHfjS](http://pastebin.com/EMNmHfjS) * Any help would be great 🙂 * [agelonwl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angelonwl/) * (@angelonwl) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-category-search/#post-3490207) * I see now, maybe you can try to add new condition to filter empty categories * e.g. * ``` if ( $_REQUEST['segment'] != '-1' ){ } ``` * Thread Starter [adhanaraj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adhanaraj/) * (@adhanaraj) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-category-search/#post-3490215) * Figured it out! Unfortunately had to change some of event_manager’s core files, so I’ll have to keep my eye out and replace it whenever EM updates. * Anyways, what I did was that I went into em-object.php (in /classes), and added two more key-value pairs to $super_defaults. I then went and duplicated anything to do with categories (minus wordpress terms) and changed them to the respective two new variables I wanted (products, segment). * Back to the event-list file I just passed the _REQUEST[‘variable’] onto their respect $variable. * Thanks for helping me out, really put me on the right path. 🙂 * [bentonwalker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bentonwalker/) * (@bentonwalker) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-category-search/#post-3490226) * Hey adhanaraj, * Would you mind pasting your php code from em-object.php and events-list.php to pastebin and posting the link? I’m trying to add two more category boxes like you did. * Thanks! * Benton * Thread Starter [adhanaraj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adhanaraj/) * (@adhanaraj) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-category-search/#post-3490267) * Sure thing – the things that are changed are anything that have the words ‘product’ or ‘segment’ in them 🙂 * Disclaimer: This is probably not the best way of doing it, just the way that worked for me. * I’ve split the pastebin into events-list, events-search, and then the entire em-objects. Good luck! * [http://pastebin.com/dmtq9Qgs](http://pastebin.com/dmtq9Qgs) Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) The topic ‘Multi-Category Search’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/events-manager/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=1039078) * [Events Manager - Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more!](https://wordpress.org/plugins/events-manager/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/events-manager/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/events-manager/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/events-manager/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/events-manager/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/events-manager/reviews/) * 9 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [adhanaraj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adhanaraj/) * Last activity: [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-category-search/#post-3490267) * Status: resolved