Change results base url

[iltdev]

Loving v2! It’s fantastic!

Just one thing I need to do. I need to change the base url that the search results go to. The slug would remain the same e.g. instead of /events/post-slug it would be /course/post-slug.

I’ve tried using livequery to catch the click so I would change the url myself:

$('item h3 a') 
    .livequery(function(){ 
        $(this) 
            .click(function() { 
                alert('clicked');
            }); 
    });

But this didn’t work.

[Ernest Marcinko]

Hi!

Thank you! I would rather recommend using PHP to achieve such thing insted of javascript. The good thing with v2.0 is that I have implemented a bunch of filters and actions, that we can use to make our lives easier 🙂

However there is no filter for changing the url, there is still a way around it. The filter called “asp_results” passes all the results as an array of objects to a desired function. This means, that we can scrape the url out of it and change it as we like:

  add_filter('asp_results', 'my_changeBaseUrl',10,1);
  
  function my_changeBaseUrl($results) {
      foreach ($results as $k=>$result) {
        $results[$k]->link = str_replace("replace this", "with this", $result->link);
      }
      return $results;
  }

You can put this code to you templates functions.php file, or into the bottom of the plugins/ajax-search-pro/search.php file. If you replace the “replace this” and the “whith this” string in this code with the desired string, it should work 🙂

[iltdev]

Brilliant that worked perfectly 🙂
Is there a way I can target a specific search? Only one of my searches needs the url change.

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