auto-suggest / auto-fill multiple category text fields, submit event

When you say “add a taxonomy”, do you mean add a term to an existing custom taxonomy – or literally to create a new taxonomy?

Sorry let me be a little clear I would like to add terms to a taxonomy. For example if I had a taxonomy called “Genres”

In the database I had the following terms:

Jazz, Funk and rock Rock

The user adding an event wanted to associate some genres with their event and typed in

Jazz and Soul

Jazz already exists in the db as a term so it would just be linked to the event (custom post type) but Soul doesn’t exist so that would be added as a term under Genre.

I would like to have multiple input text fields to add Genre/s (taxonomy terms) and each text field to auto-complete with suggestions from the database.

One other problem I wanted to solve which is related to this is the issue of spelling genres in different ways for example you could have hip hop, hiphop, hip-hop.

Before Event Manager writes to the database to associate a term with the event I would like it to check something, lets say you have this in the DB table:

Term ID Term Name AKA ID (aka also known as)
1………….Hip-hop……
2………….Hiphop……..1
3………….hip hop…….1

What I would like to do is add a custom field to the taxonomy terms so I can check if the text that was typed in wa Hiphop or hip hop. If it is then rather than add Term ID 2 or 3 to the event it would add Term ID 1. I think it would be pretty straightforward to write code for this but I don’t understand at what point I would add my code or what hooks I could use to treat the data before Event Manager writes to the DB

Does that make sense? Hope that was a little clearer and sorry for the long msg

Many thanks

yes, however sadly can’t provide you any sample snippet since I haven’t tried this yet.

Hi Angelo

Thanks for getting back to me. I think I can manage the code part (I hope ?? But I was wondering where I should add the code into Event Manager. I don’t want to hack the code so it breaks when I update EM. Should I put the code in the template file? I’m guessing I need some kind of a hook or filter so I can either override EM adding the db or to ammend variables passed through the Post request.

Many thanks

Hiya,

You can add the code into your theme’s functions.php.

Take a look here for more info: https://wp-events-plugin.com/tutorials/how-to-safely-add-php-code-to-wordpress/

Thanks