Dislaying Title of Two Category After Search

  • Hi, I was able to allow the user to select from 2 categories and wordpress would display all the posts matching these categories. Only the posts in both categories are displayed.

    On the post page, I want to display the title of the two categories selected before the list of posts – some what like “Here are archives to XXX and YYY categories”. I can display the 1st category title but not the second selected category title.

    The input string goes something like this https://website/?cat=3&cat=12. If a search string is supplied, it goes like this https://website/?cat=3&cat=12&s=searchtext

    Anyone please help.

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  • Thread Starter leeyha

    (@leeyha)

    Think I wasn’t clear on the help required. The help question is: How can I display the title of the two categories selected on the post page?

    I’m not sure the issue here is one of clarity rather than difficulty.

    First thing, as far as I know using:

    https://website/?cat=3&cat=12

    will not work. The second cat value overrides the first in your GET array. WordPress however will parse:

    https://website/?cat=3,12

    as a query for posts in categories 3 and 12. With that, to display the categories we can do something like:

    <?php
    global $wp_query;
    if( $wp_query->query_vars['cat'] ) :
    $cats = explode(',', $wp_query->query_vars['cat']);
    foreach ($cats as $catid) :
    $category = get_the_category_by_id($catid);
    echo $category . ' ';
    endforeach;
    endif;
    ?>

    Thread Starter leeyha

    (@leeyha)

    Hi, thanks for this. It comes close to what I wanted & found my solution from this hint you provide.

    Thanks Very Much & Merry Xmas.

    Here is my solution.

    The string that I am passing is actually:
    https://website/?s=&cat=3&cat=12

    Here is my code:
    $cats = explode(‘=’, $_SERVER[‘QUERY_STRING’]);
    echo $_SERVER[‘QUERY_STRING’]. ‘ is server query | ‘;
    echo count($cats). ‘ is count | ‘;
    echo $cats[0]. ‘ is 0 | ‘;
    echo $cats[1]. ‘ is 1 | ‘;
    echo $cats[2]. ‘ is 2 | ‘;
    echo $cats[3]. ‘ is 3 | ‘;
    if (count($cats) > 2) :
    echo get_the_category_by_id($cats[2]). ‘ and ‘. get_the_category_by_id($cats[3]). ‘ categories.’;
    else :
    echo get_the_category_by_id($cats[1]). ‘ category.’;
    endif;
    ?>

    Here is my output:
    s=&cat=3&cat=12 is server query | 4 is count | s is 0 | &cat is 1 | 3&cat is 2 | 12 is 3 | All Learning Providers and All Locations categories.

    I know it is not ‘neat’ to pass a string like ‘3&cat’ to get_the_category_by_id() function, but this this case, WordPress is smart enough to pick up the cat_id. I am really pleasantly surprised by this.

    Thanks Again.

    lxg

    (@mastermind)

    People, don’t forget to sanitize your user input. Many of the functions you use are not designed to take input from “outside”. At least you should run a mysql_real_escape_string() on the input variables before inserting them into any internal WordPress function. You don’t want your WP database poisoned (and maybe welcome some new admin members), do you?

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