Search in particular category in wordpress

Question

I am currently using the JSON API to get the data from wordpress

http://wordpress.org/plugins/json-api/other_notes/

The plugin helps to retrieve the wordpress post data in JSON format

I notice that I can get the post within some category

http://www.test.com/?json=get_category_posts&id=9

And I can also search the post

http://www.test.com/?json=get_search_results&search=keywords

However, are there anyway to implement search within some category? Thanks

Also if JSON API is not applicable , are there other approach, I have thought of using wp_query, but do I need to provide the login info if I use the WP sdk in PHP / android?

Thanks

Answer 1

You can use get_posts (Method: get_posts) which returns posts according to WordPress WP_Query parameters and then pass parameters for category and search keyword in cat and s params respectively.