By SimonF on

I'm a brand new newbie, so I'm not sure I know exactly how to put the question. I've read what I can and have searched for an answer, but what I've found only has me spiralling in deeper.

Here's the thing I need help with: I'm using Chameleon, with modified CSS. The site is essentially a place for people to go to search through the documents stored there, so I want the search form to appear on the main page and on every page. What seems to happen "naturally" in Chameleon is that the link to "search" appears in a sidebar, which, when clicked, takes you to the search form proper. I've made a new block with a search form (as described in the forum) and installed it in the sidebar; it appeared fine; but anything entered into it only brings up the search node page. I'm going round in circles here.

In sum: how can I get a functioning search box (as opposed to a link to it) to appear in a sidebar on every page in Chameleon?

My site is http://toc.slaw.ca

Thanks for any help.

Comments

kohlerj’s picture

kohlerj commented

I'm happy to e-mail you my chameleon.theme with search box. I think it works. It's Drupal 4.6. I basically took code from the Pushbutton theme. It uses the tripsearch now, but you can use the standard search too.

let me know: kohlerj@ukzn.ac.za

eva’s picture

eva commented

i'm having the same issue as simonF with the connections theme. i type in a search parameter, i am redirected to the secondary search form, and then i have to retype my search parameters.

when i switch the theme to bluemarine the search module works properly, so i'm guessing that it is something up with the theme. anyone have any clues?

eva

Andrzej7’s picture

Andrzej7 commented

Maybe to late, but I have compared bluemarine and my customised theme, built on the phpbluemarine theme

http://drupal.org/node/19299

and found the solution.

In the page.tpl.php changed

name="keys"

to

name="edit[keys]"

Andrzej