Sidebar Stories by Category showing all instead?

[bopxb]

When my user is browsing a specific category page, I would like the Sidebar Stories module to display only the top stories from that category. I looked at sidebarstories.php in the libs folder and this code:

if ($this->category)
		{
			$thecat = get_cached_category_data('category_safe_name', $this->category);
			$search->category = $thecat->category_id;
		}

makes me think that it SHOULD be working right, yet my category sidebar stories displays top news from all categories even though it says 'Top Stories in Category1'. It is not the categories that are messed up, just the sidebar stories.

I found two people talking on the same subject, one found a solution but he had a previous version of Pligg and it appears that some of the changes he made are standard in my version (1.0.3), and the other nobody helped out.

This seems like it should be a simple fix. I'm using Pligg 1.0.3, Fusion Template, URL Method 2 (made changes to htaccess), and I just recently upgraded from 1.0.0 so maybe something went wrong there (although everything else is working so I dunno).

Thanks for any help in advance!

[bopxb]

Surprised nobody was able to help, the fix was easy.

I changed $this->category in the code above to sanitize($_REQUEST['category'], 1)

[inetmagus]

Thanks, this fix works.

[HitMan]

Surprised nobody was able to help, the fix was easy.

I changed $this->category in the code above to sanitize($_REQUEST['category'], 1)

this is working, thx!

[samnjogu]

Surprised nobody was able to help, the fix was easy.

I changed $this->category in the code above to sanitize($_REQUEST['category'], 1)

Kindly assist me. I see there are two occurrences of '$this->category' in the lines of code to be changed. exactly how shold i put it?