Search module not working

[Dreeg]

Nothing?

[krmec]

I have also the same problem. I use latest vm 2.026d and joomla 2.5.19. Has anybody fixed this issue yet?

[bolonia]

Have this problem too. Any ideas?

UPD: Ok, i think i solved this problem. Virtuemart keeps last visited category in current user session by cookies. You can test it removing site cookies

To disable this behavior you should disable adding this category to session. Open /components/com_virtuemart/helpers/shopfunctionsf.php file and search for function getLastVisitedCategoryId.

Comment default return and make it like this:

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static public function getLastVisitedCategoryId ($default = 0) {

$session = JFactory::getSession();
//return $session->get( 'vmlastvisitedcategoryid', $default, 'vm' );
        return $default;

}


I hope this will help you.

[Spiros Petrakis]

Hi ,

the following change in search module view file modules/mod_virtuemart_search/tmpl/default.php works fine for me ( but it is better to create a template override )

replace line 4

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<form action="<?php echo JRoute::_ ('index.php?option=com_virtuemart&view=category&limitstart=0', FALSE); ?>" method="get">

and add the following at the end of the file after the other input elements

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<input type="hidden" name="virtuemart_category_id" value="0"/>

[csho]

@jjk  you mean additional Joomla extensions for searching VM products?

No, it is a plugin which is part of the VM2 core. If you go to your Joomla 2.5+ Plugin Manager and set the filter to "Search", you will see a 'VM - Search, Virtuemart Product' plugin. If you enable this plugin, you can create a Joomla Menu item with the 'Menu Item Type' "Search Form or Search Results". In the frontend this will present a search form/results like in the screenshot below.

I have the 2.6 virtuemart and I can't find this in plugins,does it still exist?
I need to fix the issue that when searching when viewing a products pages it searches only within that category and not from root, as a result to show no result page.

[skowi]

Hello, Bolonia and Yourgeek! Just after I've been thinking how to send you a bottle of decent whiskey I tested your solutions. Sadly not to have any success. So no whiskey for you

I'm using newest j!2.5 and newest stable VM and hoping someone will help to solve this issue.

[csho]

Enabling SEF solved the problem for me.

[tjrayner]

I had the same problem in VM3 and had to enable the "VirtueMart Product" plugin

[trevorbicewebdesign]

I have a few plugins that I wrote that use the com_finder extension. Maybe this would be helpful? Its not perfect!

http://webdesign.trevorbice.com/free-downloads/smart-search-virtuemart-product.html

[lindapowers]

I had issues displaying search results also in vm 3.0.14 even.

So after testing I noticed in my menu item for vm categories I had page layout set to "categories" and that displays 0 results after searching for a term.

If you change the page layout to "default" or "no override" in your menu item in our case it worked and shows the results.