[McGyver]

Originally Posted by Lynne

I tried all sorts of things to get that to work. Problem is, stuff gets set and then the search.php page comes back with a searchid and it wipes out anything I 'set' in the plugins. I think you may need to actually hard code something.

I was afraid we would get to the code tampering thing ...
I'll get deeper into search.php now to see how I could around this.

Thanks for your time Lynne!

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Well, I checked the hooks in search.php and concluded to the following workaround that seems to work...

I created a plugin on the hook search_getnew_complete with the following code:

PHP Code:

if ($vbulletin->GPC['include']) 
{ 
    $vbulletin->url = $vbulletin->url . '&customsearch=1'; 
} 


What this actually does is appending a GET variable to the results URL, after the searchid.

Then, I used another plugin on hook set_navigation_tab_main to activate the tab I wanted.

PHP Code:

if (isset($_GET['customsearch']) && $_GET['customsearch'] == '1')
{
    $root = 'my_custom_tab_id';
} 


It might not be a very elegant solution, but does the trick.

Once again a thanks to Lynne for the time devoted on this...

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I noticed that if there are no results, the tab gets back to "What's new", so I modified a little the plugins.

Now they look like:

hook search_getnew_complete:

PHP Code:

if ($vbulletin->GPC['include']) 
{ 
    $vbulletin->url = $vbulletin->url . '&include=0'; 
} 


hook set_navigation_tab_main:

PHP Code:

if (isset($_GET['include']))
{
    $root = 'my_custom_tab_id';
}