[jordan0]

My process for passing search query info into global variables:
If you want to do this, you must first perform the "Improved Search Function" mod: http://forum.x-cart.com/viewtopic.php?t=5971

In my /include/func.php, I found this portion:

#
# Search for products in products database
#

function func_search_products($query, $membership,$first=0,$count_all=-1,$get_all=0, $orderby="orderby", $mod_sort="", $mod_sort_field="") {
    global $current_area;
    global $store_language, $sql_tbl;
				global $config;

And added this line right after it

global $stay_in_category, $stay_in_param01, $stay_in_param02, $stay_in_param03;

Then, at every place in the customer/search.php where the above chunks of the query are handled, I added lines like

$smarty->assign("stay_in_param01","$search_param_01");

So, for example, one of my "Search Query Chunks" now looks like this:

 #Param02 Search
 $conq = ""; 
 $andq = "AND"; 
 if(!empty($search_param_02)){ 
     $smarty->assign("stay_in_param02","$search_param_02");
   $ssq = split(" ",$search_param_02); 

   foreach($ssq as $sq) 
     $conq[] = "(".$sql_tbl[products].".param02 like '%".$sq."%'"." OR ". 
         $sql_tbl[products].".param02 like '%".$sq."%'".")"; 
   
 }

  if(empty($andq))$andq = "OR"; 
 $param02_query = (!empty($conq)) ? " AND (".join(" ".$andq." ",$conq).") " :"";

Now, I can have Boomer's CartLab Mod Sort take the current category and use it to sort the search results instead of the pull-down menu... and keep it from "forgetting" the param part of the search...

Or I can display the category name instead of "Search Results" in the location header and the dialog title when the search is confined to one category. I just have to know how to turn this $stay_in_category value (a categoryid) into a category name.

You can probably find plenty of uses for the global variables, and I bet a few of them would involve turning this value into a name. If you know how, please share.

Thanks
Jordan