[wp-hackers] Bulding a full search form?

[Alex King]

Why would it be bad to create custom taxonomies?

On Friday, October 5, 2012, Diana K. C wrote:

> Thanks Alex, I'm concerned about performance indeed.
>
> I thought that itens such gender only can have 2 values ever, so this data
> should be stored as post meta? Is not bad to create various taxonomies
> then?!
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex King" <lists at alexking.org>
> To: <wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com>
> Sent: Friday, October 05, 2012 10:09 AM
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Bulding a full search form?
>
>
> I'd recommend setting "pet gender" as a custom taxonomy instead of as post
> meta. Performance would be much better querying by the taxonomy term than
> by meta value (non-indexed column).
>
> Setting the default options as taxonomy terms can be done manually and to
> present a taxonomy as a set of fields in the post edit form, you can do a
> little jQuery hacking.
>
> https://gist.github.com/**3723819 <https://gist.github.com/3723819>
>
> Cheers,
> --Alex
>
> http://alexking.org | http://crowdfavorite.com
>
>
>
>
> On Oct 4, 2012, at 6:54 PM, Diana K. C <dianakac at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Hi there,
>>
>> Í'm having some spare time to get to know about searching content in WP,
>> I found some weak plugins, tips etc still anything helped at all.
>>
>> In single meta_key I manage to search it this way:
>>
>> Add this functions/plugin:
>>
>>   global $wp;
>>   $wp->add_query_var('meta_key')**;
>>   $wp->add_query_var('meta_**value');
>>   $wp->add_query_var('meta_**compare');
>>
>> And form would be:
>>
>> <form action="<?php echo home_url(); ?>/" method="get" id="searchform">
>>     <input class="input" name="s" type="text" id="keywords" value="" >
>>
>>           <select name="meta_value" id="img_post_country" >
>>           <option value="" selected="selected">Select pet gender</option>
>>           <option <?php if(isset($action_edit_image)){ ?>
>> selected="selected" <?php } ?> value="<?php _e('Male','wp_pet');?>"><?php
>> _e('Male','wp_pet');?></**option>
>>           <option value="<?php _e('Female','wp_pet');?>"><?**php
>> _e('Female','wp_pet');?></**option>
>>           </select>
>>
>>    <input type="hidden" name="post_type" value="pet" />
>>
>>            <input type="submit" name="search" value="<?php
>> _e('Search','cosmotheme') ?>">
>>    </form>
>>
>> There's no way to search more than a meta_key with this, it would be nice
>> if I could set the meta_key name in the input name instead of "meta_value",
>> then I could use more than one meta_key. I tried but doesn't work :(
>>
>>
>> I found this also http://wordpress.**stackexchange.com/questions/**
>> 38361/advanced-search-form-**with-filters-for-custom-**
>> taxonomies-and-custom-fields<http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/38361/advanced-search-form-with-filters-for-custom-taxonomies-and-custom-fields>
>>
>> Beside the fact I'm lacking knowledge on post data e sessions, is this a
>> sort of a hack?
>>
>> Thanx!
>>
>
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