Omit collection items in search

Juan · Feb 4th 2020

I'm performing a search using perch_content_search() and I want to avoid displaying items in a collection if isPublished is not checked. Is there any way of doing this?

HTML: card.html

// More template fields here
<perch:content id="isPublished" type="checkbox" label="Published" suppress="true" />

Mxkert · Feb 4th 2020

Is this what you are looking for?

hus_hmd · Feb 4th 2020

Mxkert is probably the easiest option. However, filtering inside the template may lead to some issues. If you need pagination, the number of results per page may be inconsistent (and some pages may not show any results). The other issue is you can't easily tell when you get no results.

An alternative would be to skip the templating, disable pagination and handle the rest in PHP:

PHP

$search_items = perch_content_search(perch_get('q'), [
'skip-template' => true,
'count' => null,
]);

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Juan · Feb 4th 2020

Thank you Mxkert and hus_hmd!

I didn't realize that I could use perch_template() to output the search without the unwanted items. I'll give it a try.

I also tried getting all the _id's that matched the search and then filter by those values when calling perch_collection(). The problem is that I only got the first match. This was the code:

PHP

$searchResultsIDs = '36, 29, 21, 16,5';
perch_collection('Cards', [
'template' => 'cards/compact_card.html',
'filter'=> [
[
'filter' => 'isPublished',
'value' => true,
]
[
'filter' => '_id',
'match' => 'in',
'value' => $searchResultsIDs,
]
]);
// Only item 36 is displayed

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hus_hmd · Feb 4th 2020

Try removing the spaces between the values:

PHP

$searchResultsIDs = '36,29,21,16,5';

You are also missing a comma after the first filter array:

Code

[
'filter' => 'isPublished',
'value' => true,
],

Juan · Feb 5th 2020

hus_hmd Bravo!

Many thanks, it worked perfectly.

Omit collection items in search

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