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I saw this in the advanced search template and wanted to put in my header.thtml template so users can go to the writers profile at any given point. But when I put it in the header, it gives me the {lang_authors} code along with the drop-down also with the actual code in it. Here is what I try to put in the header:

<tr>
<td align="right">{lang_authors}:</td>
<td>
<select name="author">
<option selected="selected" value="0">{lang_all}</option>
{author_option_list}
</select>
</td>
</tr>

The problem is that those variables have not been set for the header.thtml template file. If you really want to display them, you are going to have to copy code from showForm() in system/classes/search.class.php (the part that sets the variables you need) to COM_siteHeader in lib-common.php.

It's not that easy - not all of the variables are available everywhere (actually, most are not).

You will need to write some PHP code for this (mostly copying from the search class) and then either hack COM_siteHeader to define that new variable or simply call your code in the header (as you can use PHP in header.thtml).

bye, Dirk

Thanks for the reply guys. I have it working the way I need it now, thanks again.