[LeeCHeSSS]

I spoke with TECK on MSN (only briefly) and he said I should post how to place a search box on your vbHome page. So here goes:

Open vbHome's index.php and search for:

$templatesused.= 'home_userloggedin,home_userloggedout,home_advertisementbit,';

replace that with:

$templatesused.= 'home_userloggedin,home_userloggedout,home_advertisementbit,home_search';

Next, search for (still in index.php):

eval("\$homefooter .= \"".gettemplate('home_footer')."\";");

and immediatly after it add:

// custom templates
eval("\$home_search .= \"".gettemplate('home_search')."\";");

Save and reupload index.php (as always, be sure you have a backup of the original).

Now goto your admin cp and create a new template called "home_search" and paste the following code into it:

<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="150">
<tr>
<td bgcolor="{tablebordercolor}" >
<table width="150" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3">
<tr>
<td valign="top" bgcolor="{categorybackcolor}">&nbsp;<font color="{categoryfontcolor}"><normalfont><b>Search
</b></normalfont></font>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="{firstaltcolor}"><smallfont>
<!-- Begin -->
<table align="center" border="0"><tr align="center"><td><smallfont>
<form style="margin-bottom:-2;" action="$bburl/search.php" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="s" value="$session[sessionhash]">
<input type="hidden" name="forumchoice" value="- 1">
<input type="hidden" name="searchin" value="subject">
<input type="hidden" name="searchdate" value="-1">
<input type="hidden" name="action" value="simplesearch">
<input type="hidden" name="booleanand" value="yes">
<input class="search" onFocus="this.value='';" type="text" name="query" value="For..." size="10" maxlength="150" >
<input type="hidden" name="action" value="simplesearch">
<input type="image" src="{imagesfolder}/go.gif" name="Submit" border="0" align="absbottom">
</form><b><a href="$bburl/search.php?s=$session[sessionhash]">Advanced Search</a></b>
</smallfont></td></tr></table>
<!-- End -->
</smallfont>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<smallfont><br></smallfont>

And finally, insert "$home_search" anywhere in the template "home" where you would like to have the search box show up.

Note that the box likely needs to be resized to fit your layout (this is the one i use for MY vbHome; which doesn't use the default layout).