Results suggestions – how to add more than post tile in the results

Hi it looks like that i found a way display the results suggestions like i want using this:

https://wp-dreams.com/forums/topic/results-suggestions-how-to-add-more-than-post-tile-in-the-results/

Which is great. Is there a way that i can make titles specific to custom post type? For example:

cities post type: title, state_code

states post type: title

or any other titles description per post type

Ok, i understand. you’re hooking into the asp_results filter and passing the parameters is_ajax search_id and rsults defining meta key and post type and using it or using the default get post meta.this is great, thank you! very helpful. I added:

$r->title .= “, ” . $state_code;

so i have the comma separator after the title. Im trying to dig into the documentation to really learn how to do all of the customizations i need. if you have any helpful links, please point me in the right direction.

For example, can the plugin index values from an acf relationship field where the values are returned as an array or do i need to write something to convert the array to a string

Hello Ernest,

I’m currently trying to modify the search results of the Ajax Search Pro plugin to display a custom sorted list of suggested keywords from a JSON file in my theme directory. Specifically, I want the results to be sorted by relevance to the search query, similar to Google’s search suggestions.

I’ve attempted to use the ‘asp_results’ filter to achieve this, with a function that reads the JSON file, creates a new stdClass object for each keyword, and appends it to the $results array. I’m using the levenshtein() and strpos() functions to calculate a relevance score for each keyword and sort the results accordingly.

However, I’ve encountered a couple of issues:
1. The keywords from my JSON file are being displayed, but the sorting does not seem to reflect the search query. They appear to be in a preset order that does not change.
2. When I modify the function to filter the results based on the search query before returning them, no results are displayed at all.

I suspect there might be something internal to the plugin that is affecting the results. Would you be able to provide some guidance on how to correctly implement this functionality?

Here is the code I am currently using:

add_filter( ‘asp_results’, ‘asp_custom_keyword_results’, 10, 4 );
function asp_custom_keyword_results( $results, $search_id, $is_ajax, $args ) {
if ($search_id != 1) {
return $results;
}

$search_term = $args[‘_ajax_search’];

$json_file = get_theme_file_path( ‘/data/keywords.json’ );

if (file_exists($json_file)) {
$json_data = file_get_contents($json_file);
$keywords = json_decode($json_data, true);

$scores = [];

foreach($keywords as $keyword) {
$levenshtein_score = levenshtein(strtolower($search_term), strtolower($keyword));
$strpos_score = strpos(strtolower($keyword), strtolower($search_term));

$result = new stdClass();
$result->id = null;
$result->title = $keyword;
$result->content = null;
$result->image = null;
$result->post_type = null;
$result->content_type = ‘keyword’;
$result->link = “/search?keyword=” . urlencode($keyword);

$scores[] = [$strpos_score !== false ? $strpos_score : INF, $levenshtein_score];

$results[] = $result;
}

array_multisort($scores, $results);
}

return $results;
}

I appreciate your help.

Everything else works. The keywords are passing the correct parameters that we can use to perform the search. The only thing thats left is to make the results seem more intuitive.