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Simon Delmotte's Avatar Simon Delmotte
Hello Peter,

In the video Articles Anywhere as a CCK ( docs3.regularlabs.com/articlesanywhere/v...es-anywhere-as-a-cck ) You are referring to the Smackdown Hotel website (I would love to work on such a project 🙂).

Do you know which plugin is used for the filters found on this page for example: www.thesmackdownhotel.com/roster/

Thank you
Andrea Malalana's Avatar Andrea Malalana ADMIN
Hey Simon!

This is Andy, moderator here at Regular Labs and... creator of The SmackDown Hotel website 😁

For that Roster Page, we simply used Tabs, which is another plugin from Regular Labs:
regularlabs.com/tabs

If you mean the gray box on top where it says "Filters", that's just custom coding that we developed specifically for the wrestlers (it's not a Joomla plugin)
Simon Delmotte's Avatar Simon Delmotte
Hello Andrea,

Thank you for your reply.

I always thought that an extension that would allow you to dynamically filter the Articles Anywhere list of articles from a search form published in the frontend would be great.
Something like {articles articles="frontend_search_request" …}

Thank you
Andrea Malalana's Avatar Andrea Malalana ADMIN
Well, that is actually possible with Articles Anywhere. 😁

Look into this:
docs3.regularlabs.com/articlesanywhere/data-tags/input-values

This allows you to filter articles by a value coming from the URL.

So if you add an input/search form, which will add the input value to the URL, you can then use that on the page to filter Articles depending on it.

Check it out!
Simon Delmotte's Avatar Simon Delmotte
Andrea,

Unfortunately I am only a simple integrator.
I don't think I can develop the form you suggest myself.

Anyway Thanks for the tip
Peter van Westen's Avatar Peter van Westen ADMIN
The input thing also works on POST data. So you just have to make a little form that sends that to the same page you are on.

You could start with something really simple:
<form>
  <label for="fname">Category:</label>
  <select name="category">
    <option>Animals</option>
    <option>Fruit</option>
    <option>Long Stringy Things</option>
    <option>Feelings</option>
  </select>
  <br>
  <input type="submit" class="button" value="Submit">
</form>

Then in your {articles} tag, just do:
{articles category="input:category"}
You could use a form extensions to create your simple forms.
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Simon Delmotte's Avatar Simon Delmotte
Thank you both for your valuable advice.
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