? 271694_drupalorg_better_help_no_search.patch
Index: drupalorg.module
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RCS file: /cvs/drupal-contrib/contributions/modules/drupalorg/drupalorg.module,v
retrieving revision 1.19
diff -u -p -r1.19 drupalorg.module
--- drupalorg.module	12 Apr 2008 19:57:55 -0000	1.19
+++ drupalorg.module	22 Jun 2008 14:10:26 -0000
@@ -153,3 +153,42 @@ function drupalorg_project_page_link_alt
   // Link to security handbook page.
   $all_links['support']['links']['report_security_issue'] = l(t('Report a security issue'), 'security-team');
 }
+
+/**
+ * Implementation of hook_block().
+ */
+function drupalorg_block($op = 'list', $delta = 0, $edit = array()) {
+  if ($op == 'list') {
+    $blocks[0] = array('info' => t('External/Alternate Search Advice'),
+      'weight' => 0, 'enabled' => 0, 'region' => 'header');
+    return $blocks;
+  }
+  else if ($op == 'view') {
+    switch ($delta) {
+      case 0:
+        $block = array('subject' => t('Search Engine'),
+          'content' => drupalorg_display_block_external_search());
+        break;
+    }
+    return $block;
+  }
+}
+
+
+/**
+ * Body for external search block
+ */
+function drupalorg_display_block_external_search() {
+  if (!user_access('search content')) {
+    $form = '<form method="get" action="http://www.google.com/search"><div>
+               <input type="hidden" name="ie" value="UTF-8" />
+               <input type="hidden" name="oe" value="UTF-8" />
+               <input type="hidden" name="domains" value="drupal.org" />
+               <input type="hidden" name="sitesearch" value="drupal.org" />
+               <input type="text" class="form-text" name="q" size="20" maxlength="255" value="" />
+               <input type="submit" class="form-submit" name="btnG" value="Google Search" /></div>
+               </form>';
+    $message = '<p>Due to load issues the Drupal.org search occasionally has to be disabled.  When this happens, you can use external search engines and a modifier like "site:drupal.org" to refine your results to Drupal.  For more information <a href="http://drupal.org/node/271694">see the infrastructure queue</a></p>.';
+    return $form . $message;
+  }
+}
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