Search mod.

[Vall]

Hello,

I've been working for a while on a search modification. Normally when a user selects ONLY a category or a manufacturer in advanced search there is an error "at least one input missing".

I wanted to change it so that when the client selects only category/manufacturer the script shows all products from that category/manufacturer. (Or is it the default behaviour of Zen Cart and my install is broken?)

To do that I created a slight modification in the core files:

includes/modules/pages/advanced_search_result/header.php

  if (isset($_GET['pfrom']) ) {
    $pfrom = $_GET['pfrom'];
  }

  if (isset($_GET['pto']) ) {
    $pto = $_GET['pto'];
  }

changed to: (if price is not defined, take as default 0-999)

  if (isset($_GET['pfrom']) ) {
    $pfrom = $_GET['pfrom'];
	if ( $pfrom == '' ) { $pfrom = '0'; }
  }

  if (isset($_GET['pto']) ) {
    $pto = $_GET['pto'];
	if ( $pto == '' ) { $pto = '999'; }
  }

And at the end of this file I 'reset' the two variables, so they don't show in the user's browser:

$pfrom='';
$pto='';

I also modified the includes/modules/pages/advanced_search/jscript_main.php to skip the price range check. Now, everything works fine, except that I can't browse any other page of results than the first one. When I think of it it's fine becouse I reseted the variables, but on second thought if I define a price range by entering it in the boxes I can browse all pages.

My question would be: Where can I actually find the part of the code that is responsible for the generation of 'page 2..3..' links?

Or maybe my logic is wrong in the first place and it's impossible to do it that way?

Address of the website: http://salonbielizny.eu (you can check out the searches)

Thanks in advance for any clues!

[DrByte]

I've been working for a while on a search modification. Normally when a user selects ONLY a category or a manufacturer in advanced search there is an error "at least one input missing".

I wanted to change it so that when the client selects only category/manufacturer the script shows all products from that category/manufacturer. (Or is it the default behaviour of Zen Cart and my install is broken?)

Why not just use the manufacturers or categories sidebox to allow a listing of all items in said grouping? No need to use the search field to display all items in a certain category or manufacturer.

[Vall]

Hello, thanks for the answer! :) I do have the category sidebox, I was rather thinking of manufacturers specifically (categories being an addition since it works that way also). My customer is unfortunetly a little picky when it comes to design and does not want to have two different boxes with manufacturers. But I guess that's what I'm going to do at the end if I can't come to it. :)

Any code clues please? :)

[Vall]

Hello,

resurrecting the thread.. :) Now the only thing I'd like to do is:

I got a select box with lots of options

<select name="sizes">

Now I want the result to be added to the keyword field, just as if someone wrote the same in keywords. I tried playing with the code in header_php.php file in advanced_search, but with no luck.

Any help would be appreciated. :)