Hiding products from search

[monkeytown]

I have probably a unique need from many sites. We have approx 38000 items available for sale. On our shopping site, we only want to display around 6,000 of them for display. Others we want to be able to be searched, and yet others we only want to be able to be purchases through the Quick Order module.

So, we will have 3 possible product tiers.

Status 1 = Browsable, Searchable, Buyable
Status 2 = Searchable, Buyable
Status 3 = Buyable

Currently it works to change an item status to 2 and it does not appear on the site if you search or browse, but you can add it to your cart if you enter the item number in the quick order. Technically this will be status 3 but for now 2 is ok. I am looking for where to change the search query to only look for items that are status 1 or 2, but I can't find where to edit that. I would rate myself as an intermediate PHP programmer, but I am not used to working in a template system like this so I am having a hard time tracing the code to find the query.

Any help is appreciated.

[yellow1912]

This may help:

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showth...ghlight=search

[monkeytown]

Thanks. Got it working now.