https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/show-similar-postings Gravity Support Forums Topic: Show "Similar" Postings en-US Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:30:38 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/show-similar-postings#post-108462 Wed, 26 Dec 2012 15:20:03 +0000 Chris Hajer 108462@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Neat solution: thank you for sharing your code. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/show-similar-postings#post-108457 Wed, 26 Dec 2012 15:13:40 +0000 schnettker 108457@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>okay .... here comes some code. The code needs additionaly security checks! (proof the _POST Variable!)</p> <p>function.php (called by the javascript code)</p> <pre><code>function AjaxSimilar(){ //get the data from ajax() call $anbieter = $_POST[&#39;anbieter&#39;]; $query = new WP_Query( array( &#39;taxonomy&#39;=&gt;&#39;anbieter&#39;, &#39;anbieter&#39; =&gt; $anbieter) ); while ( $query-&gt;have_posts() ) : $query-&gt;the_post(); $results = $results .&#39;&lt;li&gt;&#39;.get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), &#39;einsendeschluss&#39;, true). &#39; - &lt;strong&gt;&#39;.$anbieter.&#39;&lt;/strong&gt; - &#39; . get_the_title() . &#39;&lt;/li&gt;&#39;; endwhile; if (!$query-&gt;have_posts()) { $results = &#39;&lt;strong&gt;No posts&lt;/strong&gt;&#39;; } die($results); } // creating Ajax call for WordPress add_action( &#39;wp_ajax_nopriv_AjaxSimilar&#39;, &#39;AjaxSimilar&#39; ); add_action( &#39;wp_ajax_AjaxSimilar&#39;, &#39;AjaxSimilar&#39; );</code></pre> <p>Javascript (header.js.php in my template)<br /> <pre><code>$( document ).ready( function( $ ) { $(&#39;.anbieter&#39;).bind(&#39;change&#39;, function (){ jQuery.ajax({ type: &#39;POST&#39;, url: &#39;http://www.gwinnr.de/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php&#39;, data: { action: &#39;AjaxSimilar&#39;, anbieter: $(&#39;.anbieter div&#39;).find(&#39;span&#39;).text(), }, success: function(data, textStatus, XMLHttpRequest){ $(&#39;.similarbox&#39;).html(&#39;&#39;); $(&#39;.similarbox&#39;).append(data); }, error: function(MLHttpRequest, textStatus, errorThrown){ alert(errorThrown); } }); });</code></pre> <p>In my example i build a html form with the css class "similarbox" and a select with advanced controller with the css class "anbieter"</p> <p>The result is visible at <a href="http://www.gwinnr.de/ess-gewinnspiel-melden-2" rel="nofollow">http://www.gwinnr.de/ess-gewinnspiel-melden-2</a> </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/show-similar-postings#post-108278 Wed, 26 Dec 2012 08:46:45 +0000 Chris Hajer 108278@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>@schnettker, can you share your code here please for the benefit of others who may want to accomplish the same thing? Thank you. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/show-similar-postings#post-107853 Tue, 25 Dec 2012 18:05:08 +0000 schnettker 107853@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>okay ... i spend the last four hours on the problem and solved it. The trick was admin-ajax, a html Element in the form, some jquery code and a custom query in the functions.php.</p> <p>You can close the topic </p> <p>Happy holidays! </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/show-similar-postings#post-107759 Tue, 25 Dec 2012 14:30:26 +0000 David Peralty 107759@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Sure, you can watch remote fields using JS for an update, but you can't change the field code itself. All my best! Happy holidays! </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/show-similar-postings#post-107755 Tue, 25 Dec 2012 14:19:55 +0000 schnettker 107755@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Okay, i unterstand that there is no "out of the box" solution there. I try now to make my on solution and got one question: where can i modify a field with a "onChange" (Javascript) method? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/show-similar-postings#post-106446 Sun, 23 Dec 2012 11:47:56 +0000 David Peralty 106446@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Gravity Forms doesn't support showing entries in the front end of a site unless you make them WordPress posts through our Post Fields and then you could use a related posts plugin to pull in such details. </p> <p>If you wanted to do this without Post Fields, you'll have to custom code the PHP / SQL statements to do so. All my best! </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/show-similar-postings#post-106322 Sun, 23 Dec 2012 04:08:55 +0000 schnettker 106322@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Sorry, my english isn't good. I try it again. If I start a topic in this forum, then tests the forum if there is a similar topic already. I want a similar function for my form. Use the form to send user entries for the website and I'd like to suppress duplicate entries.</p> <p>This is my form: <a href="http://www.gwinnr.de/ess-gewinnspiel-melden-2" rel="nofollow">http://www.gwinnr.de/ess-gewinnspiel-melden-2</a></p> <p>After the User is chosing "Anbieter" i would to show postings with the same "Anbieter" in the box below. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/show-similar-postings#post-106104 Sat, 22 Dec 2012 20:23:01 +0000 David Peralty 106104@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I'm sorry, I don't understand what you are looking for. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/show-similar-postings#post-106084 Sat, 22 Dec 2012 18:03:04 +0000 schnettker 106084@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>i use gf to let the User populate Postings. I want to prevent them to Post "similar Content" (like the "Similar Topics" Box here). Can i use something similar to show the User (dynamicle) such Postings?</p> <p>joerg </p>