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would these allow to add a dropdown to search a specific set of pages or categories
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would these allow to add a dropdown to search a specific set of pages or categories

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I am not sure to be honest, I just thought before trying to write your own script for this, to read through the extensions and see if any handle your request
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I am not sure to be honest, I just thought before trying to write your own script for this, to read through the extensions and see if any handle your request

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Is there a way to use template override to add a dropdown that displays a list of submenu items to limit the joomla default search module to? &nbsp;What kind of query would I need to generate the list of submenu items? &nbsp;How can I force joomla to limit the search list to these litems after I add the dropdown to the default.php?
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Is there a way to use template override to add a dropdown that displays a list of submenu items to limit the joomla default search module to?  What kind of query would I need to generate the list of submenu items?  How can I force joomla to limit the search list to these litems after I add the dropdown to the default.php?

How to modify joomla default search module to add a dropdown

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