$search_box not there in one theme

Posted by zbricoleur on January 16, 2008 at 8:02pm

I think this will turn out to be something stupidly simple, but I've been trying to figure it out for an hour or more and I'm stumped.

I have a custom theme for which $search_box is not being set. The search box shows up fine in Garland, so I know that I have search enabled. I have it set so that the user has no choice about seeing it. And yet...

<?php if ($search_box): ?><div class="block block-theme"><?php print $search_box ?></div><?php endif; ?> in Garland shows the search box, but the same code in the custom theme produces nothing.

Any help appreciated.

~Matt

Comments

On page

Posted by gpk on January 16, 2008 at 9:49pm

On page admin/build/themes/settings/theme-name, is the box "Search box" checked?

gpk
----
www.alexoria.co.uk

Yeah, I'm an idiot

Posted by zbricoleur on January 16, 2008 at 9:55pm

That was the problem, all right. I thought I had hunted down every Search related setting in the admin interface, but there was one I had overlooked. Thanks, gpk, good call.

:-)

Posted by gpk on January 16, 2008 at 10:15pm

That one has probably caught us all out at some stage. Which is why we now remember :-)

gpk
----
www.alexoria.co.uk

Search box not showing

Posted by pbland on February 2, 2008 at 1:00am

I too have a custom theme where the search box is not showing, but I can see the search in my admin site, which is using chameleon. I verified the "Search box" is checked under administer/site building/themes/settings/theme-name.

In page.tpl.php, when I check the following, $search_box is empty:

<?php
if ($search_box): 
?>

<?php
print $search_box 
?>

<?php
endif; 
?>

What else can I check to see why my search box doesn't display?

Thanks,
Paul

What is your custom theme

Posted by gpk on February 2, 2008 at 6:55pm

What is your custom theme based on? Is it a pure PHP theme or a PHPTemplate theme?

Chameleon does not have a theme-provided search box. Maybe what you can see is the search block?

gpk
----
www.alexoria.co.uk

My custom theme

Posted by pbland on February 2, 2008 at 8:18pm

is based on Garland. I just copied all those files and modified to my own needs. I know I must have done something to cause the search block to not appear, but I can't find anything.

Do the relevant roles have

Posted by gpk on February 2, 2008 at 8:20pm

Do the relevant roles have search permission on admin/user/access page?

gpk
----
www.alexoria.co.uk

That's it!!!

Posted by pbland on February 2, 2008 at 9:51pm

Thanks gpk. I spent many hours researching only to have the solution be something so simple. Forgot about permissions.

;-) I've lost count of how

Posted by gpk on February 2, 2008 at 10:53pm

;-)

I've lost count of how many times I forgot to set permissions and then couldn't find the feature I was looking for ...

gpk
----
www.alexoria.co.uk

Search Box

Posted by sumachaa on June 23, 2008 at 2:18pm

Is there a way to override the search_box function.

right now when calling print $search_box; displays a from with text box and submit button, I want to customize this form (eg: I dont want the button, etc etc)

I dont have the permission to edit the core modules, so i cant edit the search.module file. so i need to override this. Is there any way to do this

thanks
Sumesh

It depends on what you want to do

Posted by zbricoleur on June 23, 2008 at 4:32pm

You can do some manipulation by using template.php in your theme to override the search.module functions theme_search_block_form and theme_search_theme_form.

You can do things like hide buttons using CSS.

You can alter the form itself using hook_form_alter in a custom module.

You don't want to edit search.module; that will just cause you problems down the road.

I've got the same

Posted by randome on February 28, 2008 at 8:49am

I've got the same problem.
Search box is enabled in theme settings, users have access enabled but I cannot display a search_box.
So I've tried printing the form with the search_box as form_id.

<?php
  print drupal_get_form('search_box'); 
?>

The form of course displays properly but when I submit the form/do a search (for example I'm searching for 'keyword') it redirects me to /search/node instead of /search/node/keyword.

Any idea what could go wrong?

I am too having exact same

Posted by poseidon123 on March 2, 2008 at 8:24pm

I am too having exact same problem. Are u able to solve it ?

Some pointers ...

Posted by gpk on March 4, 2008 at 12:01pm

hook_forms() is used to "alias" the form_ids "search_theme_form" and "search_block_form" to the form builder function search_box(), in http://api.drupal.org/api/function/search_forms/5.

The forms are then "called" in http://api.drupal.org/api/function/search_block/5 and http://api.drupal.org/api/function/phptemplate_page/5. The latter populates page.tpl.php variable $search_box iff theme_get_setting('toggle_search') returns something that evaluates to TRUE.

Try using "search_theme_form" in place of "search_box" in yr drupal_get_form() call (search_box() expects an argument - the form_id). Actually with this info you should be able to get the proper $search_box working anyway ...

gpk
----
www.alexoria.co.uk

Can you give an example of

Posted by MGParisi on July 7, 2008 at 12:46am

Can you give an example of code. I am lost on this one too. Got it on one site that had it already on the theme, on my custom theme I can not get it!

Thanks
MGParisi

Toasty Art, An Online Premium Art Gallery

use drupal_get_form('search_theme_form')

Posted by pph_devo on December 15, 2008 at 4:57pm

<?php
if (empty($search_box)) { $search_box = drupal_get_form('search_theme_form'); }

echo '<div class="search-box">' . $search_box . '</div>';
?>

I wish i understood why your

Posted by microsyskl on November 13, 2009 at 5:15am

I wish i understood why your solution just worked - BUT IT DID! THANKS!!! Everything else I tried failed. I shared the same sentiment as many other prior posters. $search_box continued coming up empty. I was using an Artisteer custom designed template - maybe that had something to do with it??

Now, off to work to try to lose the fancy SEARCH BUTTON Artisteer wants to insert and to insert a simple default, small because i am burying it in my footer block. Any takers on the simplest way to do that?

+1 on the idiot feeling

Posted by frazras on February 22, 2011 at 3:55am

+1 on the idiot feeling

"I would rule the world - If only I had the source code"
R.A.Smith -- "ƒrÅzRâ§"
http://www.exterbox.com