Create Search on Checkbox options

• debschmidt

• March 18, 2015 at 4:44 am

I’m trying to create a search feature that will post the checkbox options on a page that will be selected by the user which will then be used to search our database.

The custom fields are built. Currently I am unable to get the fields to display. I’ve done a simple vardump following the instructions here on AFC resource – but obviously, I’m missing something. I need to be able to assign checkboxes to each item – then search on the checked ones. Here is what I have:

echo ‘<h5>Garage Type</h5>’;
$garage_type = ”;
$garage_type = get_post_meta(get_the_ID(),’garage_type’,true);
$garage_type = get_field(‘garage_type’);
if($garage_type)
{
echo ‘

‘;
foreach($garage_type as $garage_types)
{
echo ‘
• ‘ . $garage_types . ‘

‘;
}
echo ‘

‘;
}
var_dump($garage_type);

And here is What I get:

Garage Type

Courtyard Entry

array(1) { [0]=> string(15) “Courtyard Entry” }

Any ideas? Thanks

• James

• June 20, 2016 at 7:58 pm

Hi @debschmidt,

Thanks for the post.

To create a post search filtered by custom field values, you will need to create a custom query using the WP_Query class and then include a meta_query with custom field meta like so:

// args
$args = array(
	'numberposts'	=> -1,
	'post_type'		=> 'event',
	'meta_query'	=> array(
		'relation'		=> 'OR',
		array(
			'key'		=> 'checkbox_name',
			'value'		=> 'value_1',
			'compare'	=> 'LIKE'
		),
		array(
			'key'		=> 'checkbox_name',
			'value'		=> 'value_2',
			'compare'	=> 'LIKE'
		)
	)
);

// query
$the_query = new WP_Query( $args );