Adding Search Box

[ruben]

Just wondering if it was possible to add a search box to the top of the forum. Sort of like what you guys have.

Thanks,
Ruben

[ruben]

~BUMP~

[Dennis Tsang]

Put something like this in your header template:

<form action="search.php" method="get">
<input name="keywords" title="Enter your search keywords" type="text" />
<input value="Search Forum" name="submit-search" type="submit" />
<input type="hidden" name="action" value="do_search" />
</form>

[ruben]

Any specific place?

[Matt]

Well wherever you want it... can't be much more specific than that, you want it where you want it.

[ruben]

Well wherever you want it... can't be much more specific than that, you want it where you want it.

Sorry Man.

[Tomm M]

Well wherever you want it... can't be much more specific than that, you want it where you want it.

Go Matt, lol.

You can also use hidden form fields to control what options are used in the search, for example you can use them to only search for topics, or only search in posts etc.

[ruben]

Well wherever you want it... can't be much more specific than that, you want it where you want it.

How?
You can also use hidden form fields to control what options are used in the search, for example you can use them to only search for topics, or only search in posts etc.

How?

[Dennis Tsang]

<!-- Pick and choose: -->

<!-- Content to search -->
<input type="hidden" name="postthread" value="1" /> <!-- message and title -->
<input type="hidden" name="postthread" value="2" /> <!-- title only -->

<!-- Forums to search -->
<input type="hidden" name="forums[]" value="2" /> <!-- replace "2" with forum ID.  Add multiple lines for multiple forums.  If you don't have this line, the default is all forums -->

<!-- Example for searching forums IDs 2, 4, 6 -->
<input type="hidden" name="forums[]" value="2" />
<input type="hidden" name="forums[]" value="4" />
<input type="hidden" name="forums[]" value="6" />

<!-- Display results as -->
<input type="hidden" name="showresults" value="threads" /> <!-- threads -->
<input type="hidden" name="showresults" value="posts" /> <!-- posts -->

There are also date and sorting options, but I'm not going to go through all of them because I don't have that much time. If you want some specific setting let us know (check from the search page what you want by default) and we'll post the hidden fields you need

[ruben]

Thanks!