By Sebastiaan Brozius on

I'm busy with a theme and am trying to change the name of the Search-button.

This actually works, but when I change it, search doesn't work anymore...

Here's the code of the working search-box:

<div><div id="search" class="container-inline"><div class="form-item">
<input type="text" maxlength="128" class="form-text" name="edit[keys]" id="edit-keys"  size="15" value="" alt="Enter the terms you wish to search for." />
</div>
<input type="submit" class="form-submit button" name="op" value="Search"  />
<input type="hidden" name="edit[form_id]" value="search_box"  />
</div>
</div>

When I change the value of the button to, say, "fetch" search stops working...

<div><div id="search" class="container-inline"><div class="form-item">
<input type="text" maxlength="128" class="form-text" name="edit[keys]" id="edit-keys"  size="15" value="" alt="Enter the terms you wish to search for." />
</div>
<input type="submit" class="form-submit button" name="op" value="Fetch"  />
<input type="hidden" name="edit[form_id]" value="search_box"  />
</div>
</div>

Can anyone tell me how to change the display-name of the search-box without breaking it's function?

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.7.x

Comments

Jenny C’s picture

Jenny C commented

change it in the search module --- if you don't know how to change the code in a module post again and I'll explain it -- find this code or something like it in your version and change the word Search to the word you prefer

/**
 * Implementation of hook_block().
 */
function search_block($op = 'list', $delta = 0) {
  if ($op == 'list') {
    $blocks[0]['info'] = t('Search form');
    return $blocks;
  }
  else if ($op == 'view' && user_access('search content') && arg(0) != 'search') {
    $block['content'] = search_form('', '', null, '');
    $block['subject'] = t('replace the word Search here with what you want');
    return $block;
  }
}
Sebastiaan Brozius’s picture

Sebastiaan Brozius commented

Is this something tat can be overriden with template.php?

I hate to mess around in modules if not needed...

And, perhaps even more important, how come that when you change the value of the button to anything other than 'Search' it doesn't work anymore?

grrrlshapedthing’s picture

grrrlshapedthing commented

I'm using Drupal 6 and I'm trying to remove the word "search this site" does anyone know how I would do this?

Sinan Erdem’s picture

Sinan Erdem commented

In order to remove "Search this site", I just added the following code to main CSS file of the theme:

.block-search .title, .block-search label{
display:none;
}

I think it can also be changed from the php file that generates the block but right now I didn't dig it...

Hope it helps...

Sinan

smartnisarg23’s picture

smartnisarg23 commented

Hello Jenny C,
i m using D7. i can't find function search_block. i get----

line no-138 to 157
/**
* Implements hook_block_info().
*/
function search_block_info() {
$blocks['form']['info'] = t('Search form');
// Not worth caching.
$blocks['form']['cache'] = DRUPAL_NO_CACHE;
$blocks['form']['properties']['administrative'] = TRUE;
return $blocks;
}

/**
* Implements hook_block_view().
*/
function search_block_view($delta = '') {
if (user_access('search content')) {
$block['content'] = drupal_get_form('search_block_form');
return $block;
}
}
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

so how i can modified it? plz reply me. Awaiting for your quick response.

pwolanin’s picture

pwolanin commented

Such change in a template is outlined elsewhere:

http://drupal.org/node/45295

However, take a look at the RC1 version of this module, since the code for the search module seems to have changed substantially, and now uses the Drupal 4.7 forms API. The function search_form() in search.module seems to be the one that creates the search form.

Looking at the drupal.org page source as I post this, I see the following for the search box:

<form action="/comment/reply/56967"  method="post" id="search_theme_form">
<div><div id="search"><div class="wrap"><div class="form-item">
 <input type="text" maxlength="128" class="form-text" name="edit[search_theme_form_keys]" id="edit-search_theme_form_keys"  size="20" value="" alt="Enter the terms you wish to search for." />
</div>
<input type="submit" name="op" value="Search"  class="form-submit" />
<input type="hidden" name="edit[form_id]" value="search_theme_form"  />
</div></div>
</div></form>

I assume the drupal site is running off 4.7RC1. I think the form_id value "search_theme_form" is used in form.inc, in the function drupal_get_form(). In the comments for this function, it is implied that you can theme any form using this unique form ID, but that's as far as I've gotten. As seems to generally be the case with Drupal, some great code is far ahead of the documentation on how to use it fully.

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Sebastiaan Brozius’s picture

Sebastiaan Brozius commented

Thanks, but the id-value "search_theme_form" has to do with how it is themed (CSS-referal) and is not found in form.inc. CSS cannot set a text-value, only style-values.... (as far as I know...)

Anyway, this question has nothing directly to do with theming in the sense of how it is styled, but more how the name of the button can be changed (the "value="-line of the search-box)...

This is not something that can be changed in the suggested url; I'm already using that method, and changing the vlaue of the button breaks the search-box.

pwolanin’s picture

pwolanin commented

I realize that I did not answer your question, though with theming you should be able to create a totally different search form (if I understand the page I referenced before). With a theme function you can change the content and layout, not just the CSS.

In looking through search.module, I don't see that "Search" or "Advanced search" (the two possible button values) are used anywhere in the code. So, I concur with your confusion/frustration about why your change breaks the search module. I don't even see where the "Advanced Search" form is generated!

My only remaining suggestion would be to try your change with the latest version of search.module.

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heine’s picture

heine commented

The submit button for the search form is declared in search.module (function search_form) on line 996 (<?php-tags only for syntax coloring):

  $form['basic']['inline']['submit'] = array('#type' => 'submit', '#value' => t('Search'));

The advanced search button is declared in node.module (function node_form_alter); the advanced search form starts at 2099, the submit button is declared at line 2153:

    $form['advanced']['submit'] = array(
      '#type' => 'submit',
      '#value' => t('Advanced search'),
      '#prefix' => '<div class="action">',
      '#suffix' => '</div><br clear="all" />',
    );

Here you see some FAPI power in action. As you can see, Advanced search is a t-ified string, which means it can be replaced by using the locale module.
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pwolanin’s picture

pwolanin commented

I just came across these pages:

http://drupal.org/node/24593

http://drupal.org/node/35037

...and was going to suggest trying the method of using the locale module. Thank you for the more definitve answer!
If this suggestion works, I'll try to summarize this into a handbook page (since I've also just been reading this thread: http://drupal.org/node/42242).

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heine commented

http://drupal.org/node/24593 is already a handbook page; perhaps you can expand on it if necessary?
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pwolanin commented

I've spent much more time looking in the Customization and theming handbook, and that's where I already looked unsuccessfully for this sort of "customization" technique. So, I'd like to see at least a short page or a worked example there, perhaps with a broader array of key words. Using the search terms that would occur to me, neither of the above-referenced handbook pages come up in the first couple pages of search results. In the admin page, the description of the locale module "Enables the translation of the user interface to languages other than English.", also does not suggest this other function.

I'd just been fretting over how to change some of the block messages in OG, and had previously done it as my friend describes above- opening up the module itself and replacing the text. Obviously this creates problems (especially now for everything 4.7-related that's constantly being updated), since at a minimum this requires making the same changes (manually or via patch) for every new version of the module. Now, looking at the og.module code, it become clear that this same technique applies.

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pwolanin commented

I've created a new Handbook page related to this thread, and opened a Documentation issue:
http://drupal.org/node/58285

I would greatly appreciate your feedback.

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pwolanin commented

PS- I'm curious as to why the advanced search is in the node module?

Also, do you know of a way to link directly to an expanded advanced search form?

Thanks again!

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inthahousejamin’s picture

inthahousejamin commented

Then you need to change the text output t() line 1040 in search.module which looks like 

$form['submit'] = array('#type' => 'submit', '#value' => t('Submit'));

or search for it's function...

/**
 * Output a search form for the search block and the theme's search box.
 */
function search_box($form_id = 'search_theme_form') {

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