View Argument Handling Code - Using Multiple Taxnomy Term Names as Arguments
Preface:
I've read a lot of requests for using multiple taxonomy term names as view arguments. I found a code, but it didnt work for me.
Views default argument handling using termid rather then name works beautifully, using forms like: "mydomain.com/viewpage/termid1,termid3,termid2" or "mydomain.com/viewpage/termid1+termid2+termid3", but I found the support for term names lacking.
Concept:
- What I did with my handling code was basically grab the arguments array from mydomain.com/viewpage/term1/term2/term3, then convert any string arguments to a termid, and then flatten the arguments array (which is now all term id's) to the form of "termid1,termid2,termid3", so I can take advantage of the great termid argument support.
Setup
- Setup a view with ONE argument field of type: Taxonomy Term ID Notice it is term ID NOT term name
- Paste Code below into Argument handling Code
- browse your view with: mydomain.com/viewpage/termname1/termname2/termname3
NOTE: with this setup, you can use term id's as well as termnames at the same time, and in any order you want!
Code:
// Blake Edwards Arugment Handling Code
// - Multiple Taxonomy Term Names as Arguments
$exclude_vocab = array('13');
if ($args[0]):
//replace underscores with spaces
foreach ($args as $key=>$arg) { $args[$key] = str_replace('_',' ',$arg); }
$args_original = $args;
$args_processed = array();
foreach ($args as $key=>$arg)
{
if (!is_numeric($arg) || strlen($arg) == 4)
{
$terms = taxonomy_get_term_by_name($arg); //do a search for terms, return term objects
if (count($terms) > 1)
{
//Exclude Vocabularies
foreach ($terms as $key=>$term) { if (in_array($term->vid,$exclude_vocab)) { unset($terms[$key]); } }
}
array_push($args_processed,$terms[0]->tid);
}
else { array_push($args_processed,$arg); }
}
//Flatten Array to one Argument Comma Separated
foreach ($args_processed as $arg) { $newargs .= "$arg,"; }
$newargs = substr($newargs,0,-1);
return array($newargs);
ENDIF;
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Thanks for your solution. Am
Thanks for your solution.
Am I correct if I state that your solution works for "mydomain.com/viewpage/termid1,termid3,termid2" but not for "mydomain.com/viewpage/termid1+termid2+termid3"?
Do you have a solution for the latter one?
Thanks!
yea, currently the setup is
yea, currently the setup is for termid1,termid2,termid3
but that can be changed easily!
If you look down at the bottom of the handling code, you see the line:
foreach ($args_processed as $arg) { $newargs .= "$arg , "; }
Thats the final part which formats the term ids into one argument, if you change the , (that I bolded and spaced above) to a plus sign, it will give you termid1+termid2+termid3
Just a little modification
A quick mod to your code to meet my needs. Thought I would share.
The difference in the code (aside from the _ to a - in the str_replace) is instead of removing the $exclude_vocab, which would lead to an ever growing list, I've switched it to explicitly stating the vocab to search in via $vocab_required something that for my case won't be changing very often if ever.
I also removed the "strlen($arg) == 4" only because I couldn't see a reason to limit the $arg to four. Any reason for that I'm missing?
$vocab_required = array('6');//replace underscores with spaces
foreach ($args as $key=>$arg) { $args[$key] = str_replace('-',' ',$arg); }
$args_original = $args;
$args_processed = array();
foreach ($args as $key=>$arg) {
if (!is_numeric($arg)) {
$possibilities = taxonomy_get_term_by_name($arg);
$arg_tid = NULL; // tid match if any.
foreach ($possibilities as $possibility) {
if (in_array($possibility->vid,$vocab_required)){
$arg_tid = $possibility->tid;
}
}
array_push($args_processed,$arg_tid);
}
else { array_push($args_processed,$arg); }
}
//Flatten Array to one Argument Comma Separated
foreach ($args_processed as $arg) { $newargs .= "$arg,"; }
$newargs = substr($newargs,0,-1);
array($newargs);