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[staalejg]

I want to run an external process as part of search.php when a customer types in a search term. Can someone tell me which variable has the substring that is entered in the search form (x-cart 4.1.9).

[Victor D]

There is array $posted_data that is cleaned out according to the array
$allowable_search_fields set in search.php:

PHP Code:

$allowable_search_fields = array (
    "substring",
    "by_title",
    "by_shortdescr",
    "by_fulldescr",
    "by_sku",
    "extra_fields",
    "by_keywords",
    "categoryid",
    "category_main",
    "category_extra",
    "search_in_subcategories",
    "price_max",
    "price_min",
    "price_max",
    "avail_min",
    "avail_max",
    "weight_min",
    "weight_max",
    "manufacturers"); 


So you can refer it as $posted_data['substring']

[staalejg]

I added the following to xcartdir/search.php just to see if this was the correct variable.

$searchterm = $posted_data["substring"];
echo "$searchterm";

echo returns blank data which leads me to believe this is the wrong variable?

[Victor D]

I've placed

PHP Code:

$searchterm = $posted_data["substring"];
die ($searchterm); 


in search.php after the line

PHP Code:

x_session_register("search_data"); 


and it works

[staalejg]

Cool. So echo must not work at that point in the script. die ($searchterm) worked for me too.

Thanks.

[Victor D]

It is not for sure but I suspect the page to redirect after search form submitting so its content is refreshing after echo.