Drupal 6 customize search results

Posted by doomed on May 27, 2009 at 2:45am

Hello, i would like to make small changes to my Search Results Page.

I know i can copy search-result.tpl.php from Drupal's search module folder to the custom Theme folder and edit it there.

In my case i want to remove the user information but keep date/time.

By removing the following line, all of that info is gone:

<?php
print $info; 
?>

So how do i take the poster's username out but keep the date?

Comments

There is a variable that

Posted by almaceria on May 28, 2009 at 5:31pm

There is a variable that contains all the result item data as an array: the $result variable.

In the search_result.tpl.php file of your theme, use the following:

<?php
   print format_date($result['date'], 'small');
?>

$result['type'] and $result['user'] will contain the Content Type and the Node Author name, respectively.

See template_preprocess_search_result reference for further information

Helpful.. Thanks!

Posted by doomed on May 31, 2009 at 1:48pm

Helpful.. Thanks!

Thanks it works!

Posted by dagdag on September 30, 2009 at 9:12am

Thanks this is what i was looking for and is very easy to implement, also you can use the $info_split variable in the search-result.tpl.php file to show the different options

I have used this

<?php
print $info_split['date'];
?>

but i only got to work when used in the search module not in the theme

drupal 6.14
search 6.14
foliage theme

Please explain

Posted by hiralvyas on October 22, 2009 at 4:18am

Hi,

Can anybody explain how I can customize the look & feel of the search page? I have copied search-result.tpl.php page from search module to my theme folder. But still it is calling search-result.tpl.php page from search module.

Please expplain the whole process for this. I have not created any function in template.php page. Is it required? If so that how?

Thanks
Hiral Vyas

what to do!

Posted by dagdag on November 16, 2009 at 1:29pm

Hi I have made the changes in the module not in the theme because there this was not work for me, also I have found a theme that has that properties and can be configured to hide some things the theme is 0 point maybe can be useful for you.

in this search module file-> search-result.tpl.php, there are some comments that explain some variables that can be used to customize the search! This is my code for search-result.tpl.php:

<dt class="title">
  <a href="<?php print $url; ?>"><?php print $title; ?></a>
</dt>
<dd>
  <?php if ($snippet) : ?>
    <p class="search-snippet"><?php print $snippet; ?></p>
  <?php endif; ?>
  <?php if ($info) : ?>
  <p class="search-info"><?php print $info_split['date']; ?></p>
  <?php endif; ?>
</dd>

Flush that cache

Posted by rajmataj on June 16, 2010 at 9:51pm

If your place the modified search-result.tpl.php page in your active template, you will see the change once you flush your caches, or at least rebuild your site registry. Recommend you use the Administration Menu module, which is helpful with flushing all caches during development.

Hide it away with CSS

Posted by nitlo on April 18, 2011 at 3:01pm

I have hidden it away adding the following to the locale.css

.search-info a {
display:none;
}