Using a custom field to define search results.

Hi,

This might be what you are looking for Dynamic Parameters if I understand the problem correctly.

Looks like you are running into parse order issues here. For this to work you’d have to nest exp:channel:entries tags, which is generally not recommended. Have you tried an embedded template?

{exp:channel:entries ... } 
{embed=group/template my_product_sub_title="{product_sub_title}"}
 ...
{/exp:channel:entries}

And then, in group/template you’d use something like

{exp:channel:entries search:product_sub_title="{embed:my_product_subtitle}"}

Makes sense?

ETA: Or, what James says 😊

Basically it’s like this.

I have a page of artists pulling from the “artists” channel.

Each one of these artists use specific products from the “products” channel.

So, within the artist’s channel -> publish -> artists I want to use a custom field to define the search for the products used in the side bar.

I’ve been thinking about using a cookie as a var, then using the var in search:product_sub_title=”“

Set var inside channel and use var to create cookie:

$(document).ready(function (){ 
//define var from channel field products used
var products_used = "{products_used}";
});

$(document).ready(function () {
//set cookie for var set above 
Cookies.set('exp_products', products_used  );
});

Then retrieve cookie and us the var inside search:product_sub_title=”products_used”

But no luck. I guess there’s no way to use a js var inside an EE tag?

Edit: and oh, I have this $conf[‘protect_javascript’] = ‘n’; defined in my config file.

Setting the cookie using the channel field is working. It’s using the var to change the search keyword that’s not.

I suppose there’s a better logic to make this happen…

Got it! I had to turn PHP Parsing Stage to input. duh…

So basically, to summarize in case anyone else needs to do the same.

I set a cooking using https://github.com/js-cookie/js-cookie

I created a var out of my Channel Field within my Channel tag:

script
//set var on channel field "products used"
var products_used = "{products_used}";
/script

Set Cookie with var:

script
$(document).ready(function () {
//set cookie using var set above 
Cookies.set('exp_products', products_used  );
});
/script

Then just echoed the cookie into my sidebar channel:

{exp:channel:entries channel="products"  
dynamic="off" orderby="date"  
sort="desc" limit="2" 
search:product_sub_title="<?php echo " ".$_COOKIE['exp_products']; ?>"}

Works like a charm.

Except you have to use ajax to load the sidebar, otherwise the cookie doesn’t read on first load.