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• acrylian Administrator, Developer

  November 6 edited November 6

  While the searchEngine class has a property for that it for some reason cannot be set directly being protected.

  Thte searchform function has only a parameter to set where to search but not to exclude.

  I had to look myself: A small not so elegant workaround seesm to work by re-creating a new searchEngine object. So on your search.php try this right before all the search code:

  //search takes parameters by POST/GET queries on object creation
  $_REQUEST['excludealbums'] = 'youralbumname'; // comma separated list of album names to exclude
  $_zp_current_search = new SearchEngine();
  // normal search.php code here.
  
• ctdlg Member

  November 6

  Thank you so much, it works perfectly.
  My problem is solved.

  That question and your response could help some other Zenphoto users !
• acrylian Administrator, Developer

  November 6

  I probably just found the more elegant way without neeeding to overwrite the existing search object:

   $paramstr = 'excludealbums=orientation'; 
   $_zp_current_search->setSearchParams($paramstr);
  

  I was not sure if setting that would clear any other search params submitted already but seems to work for me, too.