Search function for room rental ads WordPress
Hi Guys
I had a plug in created so that visitors could advertise rooms for rent on a website.
www.christianrooms.com/wordpress
I am trying to get a search function/plug in written where the visitor can search for rooms by certain criteria.
The visitors need to be able to search by:
Location (where they fill in their own text, and the info is pulled from the “local area” data)
Rental Type – (a drop down box with the following options: nightly, weekly or monthly taken from the rental type data)
Then they click a button with “Search Rooms” and are presented with a list of available accommodation which I’m assuming could be taken from the “Rooms Available” page maybe.
Does anyone know of a ready made solution that would do this OR anyone up for creating it for me.
Any advice or help would be much appreciated
Many thanks
Steve
Answers (5)
Milan Petrovic answers:
I am in the process of developing plugin GD Products Center that will be used to add products by type (this can be rooms), and set up categorization/properties/specification/images/videos for each product, different product pages, search/filter capabilities and more. Currently is in Beta, with about month of development left. You can check out news about plugin and development, and request demo to test it:
http://www.dev4press.com/archive/plg-gd-products-center/blog/
http://www.dev4press.com/request-demo/
Sébastien | French WordpressDesigner answers:
This plugin could search several data (each data is in a custom field)
[[LINK href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-custom-fields-search/"]]http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-custom-fields-search/[[/LINK]]
I have made an advanced search for loft (not room) here : [[LINK href="http://www.lestetesdepub.com/location-lofts"]]http://www.lestetesdepub.com/location-lofts[[/LINK]] but it is a long work
Luis Abarca answers:
I made this sites with a similar funcionality
[[LINK href="http://mchome.com.mx/propiedades/"]]http://mchome.com.mx/propiedades/[[/LINK]]
[[LINK href="http://ihata.com.mx/"]]http://ihata.com.mx/[[/LINK]]
I'm using custom taxonomies for filter the search in both sites, and a custom table for room availability in the second one.
John Cotton answers:
<blockquote>Does anyone know of a ready made solution</blockquote>
You're almost there as it is....
You need a form in your search area (I'm guessing that's a widget?) with this kind of code in:
<form method="post" action="http://www.christianrooms.com/wordpress/my-ads/">
<select name="location"><!-- pull the values from your local area - don't get them typing in or else potentially you'll have missed matches for typos</select>
<select name="type"><!-- pull from your rental types (get_terms) --></select>
<input type="submit" value="Search" />
Then, on the my-ads page (template or archive.php?) you get check for $_POST value and adjust the query...
<?php
if( isset($POST(['location']) ) {
$filter = array(
'tax_query' => array(
'relation' => 'AND',
array(
'taxonomy' => 'location',
'field' => 'slug',
'terms' => array( $_POST['location'] )
),
array(
'taxonomy' => 'rental_type',
'field' => 'slug',
'terms' => array( $_POST['type'] )
)
)
);
// merge your new query with the existing one for this page
query_posts( array_merge( $wp_query->query, $filter ) );
}
?>
And that should do it!
This, of course, assumes location and rental are taxonomies. If they are not (eg they are custom fields) just adjust the query above.
JC