Turning dashes into spaces

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Problem:
Replace the dash character with space in text outputted from other shortcode, for example:

wpv-search-term

Solution:
I suggest you try to create another shortcode to achieve what you want, for example,
1) add below codes into your theme/functions.php:

add_shortcode('dash2space', 'dash2space_func');
function dash2space_func($atts, $content){
    $content = do_shortcode($content);
    $content = str_replace('-', ' ', $content);
    return $content;
}

2) Use above shortcode [dash2space], like this:

[dash2space] ...wpv-search-term param="type"... [/dash2space]

Relevant Documentation:
http://php.net/manual/en/function.str-replace.php
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_shortcode

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Tagged: Custom search, Views plugin

This topic contains 3 replies, has 2 voices.

Last updated by Luo Yang 6 years, 8 months ago.

Assisted by: Luo Yang.

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August 20, 2017 at 3:46 am #561615

HashimW3633

I am trying to change the headline on my landing page based on my URL. This url

example.com/?type=dancers

Should make this headline: "Legal Advice for Dancers"

And if there's nothing there, it should make this headline: "Legal Advice for Artists"

I wrote this and it works well:

[wpv-conditional if="( '[wpv-search-term param="type"]' eq '' )"]Artists[/wpv-conditional][wpv-search-term param="type"]

Except....when I need two words in my landing page headline. Unfortunately:

example.com/?type=break-dancers

produces:

Lawyers for break-dancers

Is there some way to turn the dashes into spaces?

August 21, 2017 at 6:42 am #561837

Luo Yang

Dear Hashim,

It is expected result, since in the URL you mentioned above:
example.com/?type=break-dancers
The value of URL parameter "type" is "break-dancers", this is a string with "dash", and Views shortcode [wpv-search-term] does output the string value "break-dancers" correctly, there isn't such a feature within shortcode [wpv-search-term] can achieve what you want:
Turning dashes into spaces

See our document:
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/views-shortcodes/#wpv-search-term
This shortcode displays the search term when visiting the search results page,

In your case, I suggest you try to create another shortcode to achieve what you want, for example,
1) add below codes into your theme/functions.php:

add_shortcode('dash2space', 'dash2space_func');
function dash2space_func($atts, $content){
	$content = do_shortcode($content);
	$content = str_replace('-', ' ', $content);
	return $content;
}

2) Use above shortcode [dash2space], like this:
[dash2space] [wpv-search-term param="type"] [/dash2space]

More help:
hidden link
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_shortcode

August 22, 2017 at 3:57 am #562177

HashimW3633

Wow, today's amazing. Luo, you fast exceeded the response I hoped for.

I learned a lot just by following what you did here

August 22, 2017 at 6:29 am #562215

Luo Yang

You are welcome

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