Filter news items in search by category and user login

[lholsti]

Hi,

I've been trying to work out how to filter news items included in search results by category and user login state.
I finally found a rather simple solution, so I thought I'd share it here.

Create a summary template in the news module, which only creates a smarty array with the chosen information. In my case this was the id's of news items for public access. So, something like this:

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{foreach from=$items item=entry}
  {$publicnews[]=$entry->id}
{/foreach}

Then calls the news module in the beginning of your search template:
{news summarytemplate="show_in_search" category="public"}
and filter:

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{if ccUser::loggedin()}
  <li> {$entry->title} - <a href="{$entry->url}">{$entry->urltxt}</a></li>
{else}
  {if $entry->module == 'News' && $entry->modulerecord|in_array:$publicnews}
    <li> {$entry->title} - <a href="{$entry->url}">{$entry->urltxt}</a> </li>
  {/if}
{/if}

This method could be easily expanded to filter for different user groups etc.

Hope this helps.