Information about how to use the wildcard user search in WP to properly populate things like JSON arrays for use with autocomplete JS.
WP_User_Query()
| <?php | |
| /** | |
| * Search for users by name and return a JSON object of matches | |
| * | |
| * An example method that demonstrates how to use wildcards (*'s) when | |
| * looking up users. This particular example would be used to create | |
| * a new endpoint that would output a JSON array of returned users. | |
| * Something like this would be useful for JS autocomplete queries. | |
| */ | |
| function skw_user_autocomplete( $search_term ) { | |
| // Note the astrisks | |
| $user_query = new WP_User_Query( array( | |
| 'search' => '*' . $search_term . '*', | |
| ) ); | |
| // Get the results from the query, returning the first user | |
| $users = $user_query->get_results(); | |
| $user_ids = array(); | |
| foreach( $users as $user ) { | |
| $user_ids[] = array( | |
| 'ID' => $user->data->ID, | |
| 'label' => $user->data->user_login, | |
| 'display_name' => $user->data->display_name | |
| ); | |
| } | |
| header( 'Content-Type: application/x-json' ); | |
| echo $json = json_encode( $user_ids ); | |
| die; | |
| } |
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