vB 4.2: Is it possible to have two search tabs in nav bar?

[McGyver]

OK, this is what I want to do...

I have the standard "What's new?" tab that points to search results of unread items.
The "script" value in the navigation manager settings is "search.activity".

I want to add another tab that will perform a customized search with a title like "Interesting news".
How could I keep this tab activated when showing the results of the customized search?

I tried appending tabid in URL but didn't work.
Whenever the customized results are returned, the URL is something like "search.php?searchid=XXXXXXX" and the "What's new?" tab is activated...

Any hints?

Thanks in advance...

[Lynne]

That's an interesting problem. I assume this customized search is just you adding a bunch of parameters to the search.php link?

[McGyver]

Originally Posted by Lynne

That's an interesting problem. I assume this customized search is just you adding a bunch of parameters to the search.php link?

Yes, I want to actually limit the search results by appending an "&include=forumid" parameter.

[Lynne]

I have a feeling you will need to write a plugin to do this. It would help to play around with if we can get exactly what you entered for this new tab in the Navigation Manager.

[McGyver]

I apologize for not being very clear Lynne...

The customized search link would be something like:

search.php?do=getnew&contenttype=vBForum_Post&include=1,2

[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.

[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';
}