How to filter/customize search module in Prestashop 1.5?

Question

I have a prestashop website and I am having the following issue.

My free prestashop search module (by default) it searches and displays results from every category at the same time : I have the following categories near the search bar

1. All categories.
2. Food
3. Drinks
4. Deserts

I want to customize the search so when i click(and select) food , the display results both in ajax search and main query search to be only from the food category and not from Drinks or Deserts.

And I want to keep all categories search through all the categories bellow !

Might anybody give me some clues on how to do that ?

Thank you !

Answer 1

You would have to do an override of SearchController.php

There is a docu: http://doc.prestashop.com/display/PS15/Overriding+default+behaviors#Overridingdefaultbehaviors-Overridingacontroller