Navbar Search Form/Input Box with Advanced Options Dropdown

Navbar Search Form/Input Box with Advanced Options Dropdown

Mod Version: 1.00, by ()

This modification is in the archives.

vB Version: 3.6.5	Rating: (1 vote - 4.00 average)	Installs: 16
Released: 12 May 2007	Last Update: 13 May 2007	Downloads: 100
Not Supported Template Edits Is in Beta Stage

This is a quick template mod that roughly emulates the search box here at vB.org, without the forum select dropdown.

I saw a few mods somewhat like it but none with the input box, and like many people here once vB.org released the new skin, I had to have the search box. So after a bit of coding and hacking around, here's the way I did it.

Time to Install: 2 Minutes
Difficulty: Easy
Template Mods: 1
Demo: http://www.sevenstring.org
Login: guest/guest (unregistered search is disabled)

AdminCP -> Style Manager -> Edit Templates -> navbar

Find:

Code:

<div class="navbar" style="font-size:10pt"><a href="$vboptions[forumhome].php$session[sessionurl_q]" accesskey="1"><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/navbits_start.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a> <strong>$vboptions[bbtitle]</strong></div>
		</if>
	</td>

Add directly after:

Code:

<!-- Search Box -->
<td valign="middle" class="alt1"> <div style="white-space:nowrap">
<form action="http://www.sevenstring.org/forum/search.php" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="s" value="" />
<input type="hidden" name="do" value="process" />
<input type="hidden" name="showposts" value="0" />
<input type="hidden" name="quicksearch" value="1" />
<input type="text" style="width:100px;" class="bginput" name="query"/>
<input style="font: bold 10px Arial" type="submit" class="button" value="Search" /></form>
<a style="text-decoration:none" href="search.php" accesskey="4" rel="nofollow" id="navbar_search" class=""></a>&nbsp;
</div></td>
<!-- /Search Box -->

Optional: Remove the old search link from your navbar.

Simply comment out the search text, like so. I'm sure there's a better way to accomplish this, but that's how I pull it off on my site. Any input appreciated.

Code:

<!-- $vbphrase[search] -->

Screenshot on default style:

And on my own:

Update 1.01

I've changed this to be a bit more useful, as it will now submit the query itself to search.php. I had it setup differently, but I think more people would prefer it this way. If you've already installed, just replace the template code.

Update for 3.7 RC4 or Gold for security token

Add the colored code:

Code:

<!-- Search Box -->
<td valign="middle" class="alt1"> <div style="white-space:nowrap">
<form action="http://www.sevenstring.org/forum/search.php" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="s" value="" />
<input type="hidden" name="do" value="process" />
<input type="hidden" name="securitytoken" value="$bbuserinfo[securitytoken]" />
<input type="hidden" name="showposts" value="0" />
<input type="hidden" name="quicksearch" value="1" />
<input type="text" style="width:100px;" class="bginput" name="query"/>
<input style="font: bold 10px Arial" type="submit" class="button" value="Search" /></form>
<a style="text-decoration:none" href="search.php" accesskey="4" rel="nofollow" id="navbar_search" 
class=""></a>&nbsp;
</div></td>
<!-- /Search Box -->

Download

This modification is archived, downloads are still allowed.

search_template.txt (1.6 KB, 89 downloads)

Screenshots

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