Hide category from search

Hi,
does anyone know of a way to exclude a certain category from the search?
We have a category, which is active in menu, but that we dont want to show it in the search.
So no products within this certain category shall show up in the search in other words.

I have struggled with this for several hours now but cant figure it out.

/Jagge

You can customize the file:
/includes/modules/pages/advanced_search_results/header_php.php

and change the WHERE statement:

$where_str = " WHERE (p.products_status = 1
               AND p.products_id = pd.products_id
               AND pd.language_id = :languagesID
               AND p.products_id = p2c.products_id
               AND p2c.categories_id = c.categories_id ";

to exclude the category such as:

$where_str = " WHERE (p.products_status = 1
               AND p.products_id = pd.products_id
               AND pd.language_id = :languagesID
               AND p.products_id = p2c.products_id
               AND p2c.categories_id = c.categories_id 
               AND c.categories_id != '27'";

where 27 is the category to exclude ...

NOTE: you could also use in its place:
AND p.master_categories_id != '27'

depending on which works best for you ...

Thx Ajeh!
Worked perfectly!

/Jagge

Thanks for the update that this worked to exclude your specified Category from the search ... :smile:

Ok that works for removing categories from search but can you hide the search box in certain categories?

Hi Ajeh,

We have a similar requirement.

On our website https://www.inlinefilters.co.uk I intend to put all our part number cross references in the category Brands/PartNumbers, 300000 of them.

We have two search boxes that are written in HTML in define_main_page.php. The Part Number search box uses this basic code to call up Advanced Search:

onfocus="if (this.value=='Enter any Filter Part Number here to find our Equivalent') this.value='';" onblur="if (this.value=='') this.value='Enter any Filter Part Number here to find our Equivalent';"//>
<input type="submit" name="submit" class="submit" value="Search" />
<input type="hidden" name="main_page" value="advanced_search_result" />
<input type="hidden" name="search_in_description" value="1" />

I need it configure it to just search the category Brands/PartNumbers where our cross reference data will be.

We also have two of Zen Cart's standard search boxes on the top line. Our web hosts have managed to clone the Advanced Search and hard coded it into the Part Number Finder search box to enable the required search from there (possibly not uploaded yet).

Now we require the same thing from our HTML define_main_page.php search but they are saying it is impossible to call their clone from there.

Is there a simple way to add criteria to our define_main_page.php or is a lot more programming required in or with includes/modules/pages/advanced_search_results/header_php.php where I believe all the search programming is?

Best regards,

Neville