Question

I’m trying to make a custom theme for a drupal blog, and I want the search box to appear in the header. To do that, I’ve put the following code in the page.tpl.php template file :*

<?php if ($search_box): ?>
    <div id="search-box"><?php print $search_box; ?></div>
<?php else: ?>
    <h2>Pas de search box</h2>
<?php endif; ?>

But the damn thing won’t show up. I did some research on google, and checked the Search module on admin/build/modules and admin/build/themes/settings/mytheme, and added the search form to the header in admin/build/block/list/mytheme. Did I miss something, or did I do something wrong ? Because it’s still not working, and beginning to piss me off…

Thanks.
Regards from France 😉

Answer 1

From: http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/search

If both the search
module and the menu module are
enabled, from the menus page
(administer >> menus) you can enable
on the Navigation Menu the item
Search. The option to show this menu
item may be disabled by default, but
you can enable it. (And you can rename
“Search” to whatever you wish.)

You can also place a link to Search
among your site’s primary and
secondary links, or on any other menu
as well. (Click “add menu item,” and
when you fill in the “path” field on
the dialogue page just enter
“search.”)

On your blocks page (administer >>
site building >> blocks in Drupal 6,
and administer >> structure >> blocks
in Drupal 7) there’s also a Search
form you can enable, and you can
choose where you want it to display.

On your permissions page (administer >>
user management >> permissions in Drupal 6, or People >> Permissions in
Drupal 7) you can decide who can do
searches and who can administer the
search settings. By default, anonymous
users cannot perform searches.

A technical note: To use the search
module the database user needs the
create temporary table permission. If
you seem not to have it, ask your
systems administrator to make sure
it’s granted to you.