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My client wanted me to remove the 'SKU' 'Product' (which means 'title') and 'Default' search options, from the category and subcategory pages, just leaving 'Price', as he only has a few items in each category.

I thought this was going to be really difficult, but a simple Google search directed me to another post on this forum, where Balinor explained which PHP file actually performs the search command.

Edit
include/search.php

and from line 41 you should see:

$sort_fields = array(
    "productcode"     => func_get_langvar_by_name("lbl_sku"),
    "title"         => func_get_langvar_by_name("lbl_product"),
    "price"         => func_get_langvar_by_name("lbl_price"),
    "orderby"        => func_get_langvar_by_name("lbl_default")
);

Simply put a # symbol at the start of the line of each of the search functions you want to temporarily remove - the # symbol at the start of a line means 'comment out this line' - i.e. don't run those commands. (This is only in PHP files, for Smarty templates, you need to use {* and *} to comment out sections.)

So I did the following:

$sort_fields = array(
#    "productcode"     => func_get_langvar_by_name("lbl_sku"),
#    "title"         => func_get_langvar_by_name("lbl_product"),
    "price"         => func_get_langvar_by_name("lbl_price"),
#    "orderby"        => func_get_langvar_by_name("lbl_default")
);

Took me two minutes, and now only the 'Price' search shows up, but I can easily uncomment any of the others, at any time in the future.