Customizing Search Block Form in Drupal 6.0

there are several themes for d6 with search built into header (for example) - i think 'internet center' (or something like that) has it in upper right...but i know that several do it - perhaps visit their code and see what they're calling. my guess is that the field name was changed for d6 and a simple edit will fix it...

I was looking to change the "Search this site" and discovered the simplest thing was to create this function in my theme's template.php file. I referenced that lullabot article mentioned above to find this.

I just went into modules/search.module and edited the string output to suit my needs. What would be so wrong about that?
security issues? works fine on my page.

#search-block-form label{
visibility: hidden;
}

I believe it's the only label used in that block.

EDIT: Actually, this is not a great solution. the tag can still cause some styling problems. It may be a quick fix for some though.

Using the template overwrite method I had to use a different file name, search-block-form.tpl.php

as documented here:
http://api.drupal.org/api/file/modules/search/search-block-form.tpl.php/6

And update all references from search_theme_form to search_block_form

Thanks to all of you. Here you are the multilingual version of the same code:

I've only set it to the "Search this site" string. If you wish changing the rest take the same path :-)

This code works!!!

How I did it, this way you are language independent and it doesn't matter what could be changed in the future within any part of the search.

1. Create search-block-form.tpl.php in your themes folder. You can use the following code:
   <?php
// $Id:

/**
* @file search-block-form.tpl.php
*
* Layout for search box.
*/
$onfocus = 'javascript:
  if (document.search_block.search_theme_form.value==\''. t('Search') .'\') {
    document.search_block.search_theme_form.value=\'\';
    document.search_block.search_theme_form.style.color=\'#000\';
  };
';
$onblur  = 'javascript:
  if (document.search_block.search_theme_form.value==\'\') {
    document.search_block.search_theme_form.value=\''. t('Search') .'\';
    document.search_block.search_theme_form.style.color=\'#aaa\';
  };
';

echo '<input type="text" name="search_theme_form" value="'. t('Search') .'" title="'. t('Enter the terms you wish to search for.') .'"';
echo ' maxlength="255" onfocus="'. $onfocus .'" onblur="'. $onblur .'" style="color:#aaa" />';
echo '<input type="submit" name="op" value="'. t('Search') .'" title="'. t('Search this site') .'." />';
echo $search['hidden'];
?>
2. Create block-search.tpl.php in your themes folder. You can use the following code:
   <?php
// $Id:

/**
* @file block-search.tpl.php
*
* Default layout for the search block.
*/
echo '<div id="search-block">';
  echo str_replace('<form ', '<form name="search_block" ', $block->content);
echo '</div>';
?>
3. Clear the cache.

I spent a few hours messing around with each and every solution presented, and the ideal solution I found for having a search field that says "search" that disappears 'onclick' and a submit button that uses an image and has no text is as follows:

First, use the code that is pasted below and pop it into your template.php file. This is pulled from some other posts and tweaked a little by me, so all thanks go to the community for providing the backbone on this one, and I take no credit for it.

Second, to make your submit button into an image simply style your submit button using the following css (I used a container div called searchwrap in this example):

You can also use div#searchwrap label { display: none } to get rid of any labels you don't want.

Third, reset your site cache by going to admin/settings/performance and click "clear cached data."

This is what I found to be the ideal solution to having a small, simple search box and submit button image. The two major pluses I see are a) you have much more control over your submit image by using css, such as adding hover properties, and b) you don't clutter up your theme folder with template override files.

My solution (posted here:http://drupal.org/node/232874#comment-2461684) need the "search block" in theme admin page to be active. After You have also to remove the original snippet for it and place my code everywhere you need in page .tpl file.

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