By toypilot on

I have been trying to relocate the default search form in a Zen sub theme using CSS for some time now and having read many posts on here I am still having trouble.

Zen instructions are as follows:

# Themeing Drupal’s search form: Copy the search-theme-form.tpl.php template file from the modules/search/ folder and place it in your sub-theme's folder. And then rebuild the theme registry.

    Why? In Drupal 6 theming, if you want to modify a template included by a module, you should copy the template file from the module's directory to your sub-theme's directory and then rebuild the theme registry. See the Drupal 6 Theme Guide for more info.

Having done this while also appending the file name with underscores, still nothing I change seems to affect the search box positioning.

(I have also tried placing this file in the zen parent theme directory with no success)

I have also refreshed the theme registry and cleared the cache....

One post for drupal 5 suggested uncommenting a function in template.php but that function no longer exists in version 6.

I dont want to modify the module directly if I can help it.

I am probably missing something very simple, can someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance

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israelshmueli’s picture

israelshmueli commented

You can relocate your search doing either :
1.
Go to your subtheme page.tpl.php , cut the:

<?php if ($search_box): ?>
        <div id="search-box"><?php print $search_box; ?></div>
      <?php endif; ?>

and paste at the needed area of your page.tpl.php

2.
a. Go to your theme settings at admin/build/themes/settings/yourtheme disable the generic search box (uncheck it)
b. Go to block admin at admin/build/block and enable "Search form" block (drag n drop into the suitabe region)

toypilot’s picture

toypilot commented

Thanks isrealshmueli, I have moved and deleted that piece of code several times and it has no affect on the search box.

I'm almost convinced that its some voodoo magic.... torturous!

toypilot’s picture

toypilot commented

ok I just got something to work... devel showed that a candidate template file was "search-block-form", not "search-theme-form" as mentioned above. Adding this file to my sub theme has allowed me to modify things.

Thanks