Filter Pod based on Gravity Forms Submission

Hello @refuelcreativeadam

Please look into special magic tags. With these tags you could fetch GET and POST parameters and use it within your queries:
https://docs.pods.io/displaying-pods/magic-tags/special-magic-tags/

Important: In many cases, such as inside a shortcode, or in the Pods widget settings, you must add the following define('PODS_SHORTCODE_ALLOW_EVALUATE_TAGS',true); to your wp_config.php for these tags to be used.

Cheers, Jory

Hi @keraweb, thanks for the fast reply.

So with this, how would I get the age range? it’s being passed in a URL query string, but if I just use:

[pods name=”service” field=”service-name” where=”ages.meta_value = {@site-url}”]

That will try and compare it to the entire url correct?
How would I go about just getting part of the url?

• This reply was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by refuelcreativeadam.

Hi @refuelcreativeadam

Sorry, you cannot compare to a site URL, you need actual age values.

For a range of ages you’ll need to use a BEWTWEEN query and get the variables from the URL usint GET parameters ({@get.param}).
https://www.w3schools.com/sql/sql_between.asp

You’ll have to know some basic SQL in order to create proper filters.

Cheers, Jory

Hi @keraweb, the age ranges are being passed from the form as a string, not as an actual range.

For example the user would select the checkbox “13-17” in the gravity form and then that string is what’s being passed through.

Sorry for the misunderstanding.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by refuelcreativeadam.

hi @keraweb,

I’ve moved onto alternative means to achieve this same thing and was hoping you could help me.

I’m trying to run the following php function:

function parseGFtoPODS( $atts ) {
	
	$URLquery = $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];
	
	//split URLquery into array on "="
	$splitQuery = explode("=", $URLquery);
	//echo $splitQuery[1] . "<br>";
	
	$age = wpdb::esc_like( pods_v_sanitized( $splitQuery[1] ) );

	// set up find parameters, where meta field title matches $age
	$params = array(
		'where' => 'age.meta_value LIKE "%' . $age . '%"'
		'limit'   => -1  // Returns all rows
	);
	
	// Create and find in one shot		
	$services = pods( 'service', $params );
	if ( $services->total() > 0 ) {
		while ( $services->fetch() ) {
		echo $services->display( 'name' ) . "<br>";
		} // end of services loop
	} else {
		echo "Sorry, there are no services match your parameters.";
	} // end of found services
}
add_shortcode( 'Home_Search_Results', 'parseGFtoPODS');

This all works fine except for the where parameter, which causes a critical error on the site.

I followed this guide for that part of the function: https://pods.io/docs/code/pods/find/

So I’m not sure what’s going wrong. Any ideas?

A few other clarifying points in the code:
– the original value of $URLquery is “age=13-17”
– $URLquery[1] = “13-17”
– Without the where parameter it returns all services

To check it out yourself, it’s this page: https://www.ntcommunity.org.au/servies-search-test/?ages=13-17

username and password are both Test

• This reply was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by refuelcreativeadam.
• This reply was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by refuelcreativeadam.

Hi @refuelcreativeadam

You’ve missed a comma after the where statement. Each array value should be separated with a comma.

Cheers, Jory

hi @keraweb,

I’ve managed to get it all working. In addition to that comma you pointed out, the line
$age = wpdb::esc_like( pods_v_sanitized( $splitQuery[1] ) );

was also causing problems. I got the sanitization code from Pods documentation but it doesn’t work. I’ve removed it entirely and now it works.

Thanks for your help.

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Cheers, Jory