Excludes some categories from search?

[virtueb]

Is there possible to exclude some categories from search? Or to setup only categories which should be searched?

[hellorain]

Hello,

Yes, it can be done. But  From which Search you want to exclude categories?
Any specfic module?

Best Regards,
hellorain.

[jabba]

Hello, i'm interested in this too but there is no answer yet.

I have the standard virtuemart search module and i need it to look in ALL categories EXCEPT the categories with ids X, Y and Z

Is this possible? How?

Thank you!

[Studio 42]

The solution i know :
- add a plugin to override product model to get declared categories to disable from plugin settings
- hack the core product model(bad solution)
- write own search module and result component(or plugin), so you can add parameters in module, in case you need to disable categories only in some cases.

[jabba]

Thank you for the answers. It's a very small site with no e-commerce (catalog only). Where can i hack the core? As i can see it's the fastest and easy way to achieve this. Then i will re-write the hack every virtuemart update.
Thank you!

[Studio 42]

YOu have to modify the virtuemart product model  JOOMLA\administrator\components\com_virtuemart\models\product.php
and modify the sortSearchListQuery query to exclude product in categories(but only on searhc in front).
If you dont know mysql+php, it's not so easy to do.

[jabba]

Thank you for your answer, i can handle php/mysql, just needed to know the file to modify. Thank you!
Gianluca