[wp-hackers] Bulding a full search form?

[Diana K. C]

Oh I see!

Thanks everybody, I will consider the taxonomies!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joshua Sibelman" <joshua.sibelman at gmail.com>
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Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2012 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Bulding a full search form?


It doesn't matter if the taxonomy only has two possible values. Database 
queries will still be faster against the indexed columns of the taxonomy 
tables vs. the non-indexed postmeta values.



On Oct 6, 2012, at 11:45 AM, "Diana K. C" <dianakac at gmail.com> wrote:

> Because some taxonomies will store only 2 itens such gender?!
>
> Ok to auto populate and filter but thought metadata would be faster, now 
> I'm confused :S
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex King" <lists at alexking.org>
> To: <wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com>
> Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2012 10:22 AM
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Bulding a full search form?
>
>
> 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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