Ajax search button in forums

[Pedro]

I have seen that in the forum you are using the ajax search button (not the search, but the same appearance). How I can implented?

Thank you.

[Dude]

Hi Pedro!

I marked this thread for Kriesi – I’m sure he already created some custom code for his child theme.

Best regards,
Peter

[Kriesi]

Hi, I am using this filter function in my child themes functions.php file:

add_action('avf_frontend_search_form_param', 'kriesi_forum_search',9);

function kriesi_forum_search($params)
{
	if( strpos($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"], 'forums') !== false )
	{
		$params['ajax_disable'] = true;
		$params['search_id'] = "bbp_search";
		$params['placeholder'] = "Search Forums";
	}
	
	return $params;
}

The if( strpos($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"], 'forums') !== false ) checks if the url contains the word “forums” and if thats the case changes the search to a bbpress search. might be necessary for you to check for another keyword (for example “forum” ) or omit the check to activate it globaly…

Regards,
Kriesi

• This reply was modified 11 years, 2 months ago by Kriesi.

[Pedro]

Thanks Kriesi, but is not working in my case. I have the keyword “forums”, I change it, and is not changing at all.

This is the code that I type:

add_action('avf_frontend_search_form_param', 'kriesi_forum_search',9);

function kriesi_forum_search($params)
{
	if( strpos($params['form_action'], 'forums') !== false )
	{
		$params['ajax_disable'] = true;
		$params['search_id'] = "bbp_search";
		$params['placeholder'] = "Search Forums";
	}
	
	return $params;
}

[Pedro]

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[Kriesi]

Hey!

Please try to use

if( strpos($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"], 'forums') !== false )

instead

[Pedro]

Now! Why could be the reason that before didn’t work?

Thank you anyways :)

[Kriesi]

Was my mistake, the fact that I run a pretty heavy customized theme version that is different in a few ways from a default installation prevented it from working for you ;)

Glad it works!
Cheers

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