By nimzie on

I'm trying to make a custom search block, so I implemented the exact same code as I used in another search block (block-search.tpl.php).

  <form action="<?php print base_path() ?>search/node/"  accept-charset="UTF-8" method="post" id="search-block-form">
    <input type="text" name="search_block_form_keys" id="searchfield"  class="swap_value"  value="enter search terms" />
    <input type="button" name="op" id="searchgo" value="&amp; go." />
	<input type="hidden" name="edit[form_token]" id="edit-search-block-form-form-token" value="<?php print drupal_get_token('search_form'); ?>" />
    <input type="hidden" name="form_id" id="edit-search-block-form" value="search_block_form"  />
  </form>

and I get the "Validation error, please try again. If this error persists, please contact the site administrator."

I've gone back to no custom file and I still get this validation error with a default search block.

I'm stumped and this is a showstopper on this project :(

Thanks for any help.

Cheers,

Adam

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

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davedelong commented

That validation error (which I've come across myself) usually comes up when you have two different forms that are attempting to use the same form id.

HTH,

Dave

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nimzie commented

How do I work around this?

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nimzie commented

Or rather yet - what is the base code for a generic search block?

I can start from there although I'm taking code from 2 other working implementations and they won't work in my block : same errors.

Thanks for any help.

Cheers,

Adam

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davedelong commented

In a site I admin, we need custom rendering of the default search form (the one in the top right), so we implemented theme_search_theme_form in our theme's template.php. However, this theming function doesn't exist beyond Drupal 5. I'm not sure what the Drupal 6 equivalent would be. Here's what ours looked like:

 function ourtheme_search_theme_form($form) {
	$form['submit']['#theme'] = 'button';
	$form['submit']['#button_type'] = 'image';
	$form['submit']['#attributes'] = array(
		'src' => '/'. drupal_get_path('theme','ourtheme').'/images/go.gif',
		'alt' => t(Search)
	);
	$output = drupal_render($form);
	$output = str_replace('div', 'span', $output);
	$output = '<label accesskey="s" for="edit-search-theme-form-keys">Search BYU CS</label> ' . $output;
	$output .= ourtheme_header_login();
	return $output;
}

function ourtheme_button($element) {
	$return_value = theme_button($element);
	if ($element['#button_type'] == 'image') {
		$return_value = str_replace('type="submit"','type="image"',$return_value);
	}
	return $return_value;
}

function ourtheme_header_login() {
	global $user;
	if (is_object($user) && $user->uid) {
		$output = '<span id="userLogin">' . theme('username', $user) . ' | <a href="/logout">Logout</a></span>';
	} else { 
		$output = '<span id="userLogin"><a href="/user?' . drupal_get_destination() . '">Login</a>';
	}
	return $output;
}

We included the login link inside the rendered form tag in order to make sure that the CSS would render things properly (we're building off legacy code :P)

HTH,

Dave

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nimzie commented

Odd - I don't know what I'm missing to get these functions to hook. My theme is called brightwhite and I preface everything with brightwhite_ and rename the functions / calls to them. It doesn't seem to take @ all.
Any suggestions? I'm kind of lost on this one.
THing is, I've tried this on several different sites and it's worked... with the block-search.tpl.php file approach. Anyone should be able to drop that in their site folder and see if it works.??

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nimzie commented

I went with this approach. Now, I've got a little module and off we go. Drop me a line if you'd like it.

http://agaricdesign.com/note/validation-error-search-form-contact-site-a...

Cheers!

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khan2ims commented

Yes, thats what I do whenever I come acroos thevalidation error. Simply run the cron job and you will see the error/ warning going away in fumes :-)

But it needs a more reliable reason as to wht it happens !

Imran Khan
Project Manager
New Earth Marketing