PHP Search about wet-boew-php

[michael-milette]

You can set the $_SITE['wb_search_file'] variable to point to any file you want that contains a custom search form. This is an GCWU theme example of what your search.php should look like::

<form action="searchURL.php" method="post">
     <div id="gcwu-srchbx-in">
          <label for="gcwu-srch"><?php echo $_SITE['wb_search_label_' . $_PAGE['lang1']]; ?></label>
          <input id="gcwu-srch" name="search" type="search" value="" size="27" maxlength="150">
          <input id="gcwu-srch-submit" name="gcwu-srch-submit" type="submit" value="<?php echo $_SITE['wb_search_'.$_PAGE['lang1']] ?>">
     </div>
</form>

You might need to customize:

• searchURL.php - Replace this with the full URL of your website's search engine.
• name="search" - replace "search" with whatever field name your search engine likes.
• name="gcwu-srch-submit" - you may or may not need to replace this. Try it as is first.
• Add any additional hidden type fields, if you need any.
• You may need to change the POST to a GET.

You can usually get all of this information from your CMS' existing search form. For Google Site Search engine, see Google's documentation for a sample form. Just don't change anything else that might affect the appearance of the form or it won't display correctly in the WET theme.

It is easy to implement and it works great!

Let me know if you have any questions.

Best regards,

Michael

[upsonp]

Thanks @michael-milette I've been meaning to get back to this. I might "borrow" you're blurb for the wiki documentation when I get to it.

[michael-milette]

Glad to hear it will help with the wiki documentation.

[upsonp]

Finally got around to updating the documentation for the search and archived options. @michael-milette I used most of the description you provided for the Modular Search wiki page, thanks.

[michael-milette]

Happy to help @upsonp !

[michael-milette]

Just took a look. Looks great. Very clear. Wish I had that documentation when I was implementing it ;-)