Search on Showlisitngs.tpl

[pipelin +]

Hi,

I'm trying to place the search on showlisings.tpl, I found this post in the forum Preselected Category for Search.

selectedCat(1); //where 1 is the category pre selected.
function selectedCat(type){
$("#response").show()
$.ajax({
url: 'ajax.php',
data: 'action=extra_listing_fields&do=search§ion=' + type,
type: 'post',
success: function (msg) {
$("#response").html(msg);
}
});
}

Because the showlistings show the list from the category selected I want to change the 1 to variable category selected by the user.

For example if the user selected category house, I want the variable where is house stored to get the extra fields.

Someone know which is the variable?

[seymourjames +]

Are you saying you want to have a full search on the showlistings page? Like this example where a search has already been carried out which happened to be empty.

Search Results

You however always want it to show on every show listing page whether it is a search or a category listing?

[pipelin +]

I use other_search.tpl with a little modify and yes this is for category listing. For example if the user select the category Apartments for rent, be able to refine his search in different ways. Because I assume there are hundreds of apartments into the category. The Refine Search could be like the attachment.

[seymourjames +]

I understand except what other _search.tpl? I think you are misreading this other post. I am unaware that this will give you what you want on your showlisting page.

At the end of the day you are going to need the code from search.php in one form or another. Preferably one which is embedded within a module of some type that can be placed into your showlisting file.

It seems to me you basically needed our old global search module which we no longer offer or support with just the category primed that you are in. The problem however is that the showlistings.tpl file is used not just for categories but for displaying the results from searches, toplistings, latest listings, etc. You would therefore need this type of module and a test to know that you are in a category and not showing any other type of search results.

[Mike-N-Tosh +]

I don't know what your "other_search.tpl" actually is, however what I do is simply modify the drop down select field for the categories to automatically capture the category IF you are in one and it will preselect it. Otherwise if you are on a page from search results that isn't category specific it will simply default back to "Search all"

PHP Code:

<select name="type" id="type">
    <option size="50" value=''>{$smarty.const.LANG_SEARCH_ALLCAT}</option>
        {foreach from=$getcats item=cat}
            <option size="50" {if $cat.parent_id == 0}class="parent" {/if}value="{$cat.id}"{if $smarty.get.cat==$cat.slug} SELECTED{/if}>{$cat.name}</option>
        {/foreach}
</select> 


The key is the additional smarty if statement: {if $smarty.get.cat==$cat.slug} SELECTED{/if}

(Credit to Eric for helping me with this code)

[seymourjames +]

Thanks Mike. I am looking to dig the module up and will use that for capturing the category.