Hi gdi,

Yes, it looks like it's going to be easy to detect that keyword and make decisions based on it.

e.g. you could set up a MetaMod such that when the user searches for the term "widget", module A is shown, and if the user searches for "wombat", module B is shown, etc.

Here's how I would structure this in PHP:

if ( 

$option == 'com_mtree' 

and JRequest::getVar('task') == 'search'

and JRequest::getVar('format') == 'html'

) {

  $word = JRequest::getVar('searchword');

  if ($word != '') {

    if (false !== stripos($word, 'widget')) return XXX;

    if (false !== stripos($word, 'wombat')) return YYY;

    if (false !== stripos($word, 'baz')) return ZZZ;

    // etc...

    // don't forget to replace XXX,YYY,ZZZ with the correct

    // module ids to return for each keyword.

  }

}

The only "gotcha" with this code is that it will find the chosen words as any substring of the search term. So if  you are detecting "view" and the user searches for "interview" then this will trigger the module, and this may not be what you want. On the other hand this depends on the exact words/phrases you want to detect and it may not be a problem for you.

Hope that helps,
Stephen

Do you want it to appear when you simply go to the search page, or only after you've actually done a search?

What does MetaMod debug mode show in each case?

Cheers,
Stephen

Ok, this will do what you want:

if ( 

$option == 'com_mtree' 

and JRequest::getVar('task') == 'search'

) return XXX;

// replace XXX with module id to show on search page

Cheers,
Stephen