Disable Search for a Category

If we get it right, you need to perform a search that would exclude some categories from the search results. This functionality hasn't been introduced yet, but you can use this "trick":

   // Check category (exclude for search)
   if ($item['c']) {
       $categories = explode(',', $item['c']);
    if (isset($category_exclude) && array_intersect($categories, $category_exclude)) {
        continue;
       }
   }

in the search.php file before the line

  $MB = function_exists('mb_strtolower');

Before

include 'search.php'

set the parameter

$category_exclude = '1,2,3,4'

(numbers are the ones for the categories to be excluded from the search results). If you insert

$category_exclude = ''

nothing will be excluded, if

$category_exclude = '1'

then the news with category '1' will be excluded (the numbers for the categories can be checked in the admin panel under the categories tab).

Hi I have added the code and get a blank screen.  There was a missing semicolon in the original code that I added. I am using Cutenews 2002. I did copy and paste so the code should be ok.

hi Thanks  version number 2.0.2 build ID-202

We appologize for the code. It misses ";" and the version 2.0.2 is compatible with it.

The corrected code:
You should use the code below instead of the one above

// Check category (exclude for search)
               if ($item['c']) {
                   $categories = explode(',', $item['c']);
                   $_categoryex = explode(',', $category_exclude);
                   if (isset($category_exclude) && array_intersect($categories, $_categoryex)) {
                       continue;
                   }
               }

This worked perfectly, Thanks support team.

It may be that the code is not compatible with the version you are using. Please indicate the version number of the Cutenews you are using, i.e. 2.0, 2.3, 1.3, etc.
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Hey Community Group 2.0.2 build ID-202 Version Is Good Worked

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my problem is solved too, thanks

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