Mini Mods - Navbar Search Form/Input Box

Updated version of my older mod here, fixed for the new security token feature.

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.

Note that simply clicking the search button with no query will bring you to the default search page.

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:

<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, replacing the colored text with your domain/forum path to search.php

<!-- Search Box -->
<td valign="middle" class="alt1"> <div style="white-space:nowrap">
<form action="http://www.yourdomain.com/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 -->

Note that the bold text is what's new for 3.7.

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.

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

Screenshot:

This will be considered beta until I have it running with 3.7 for awhile to ensure there are no other hidden issues.

[powerful_rogue]

How come I didnt get a little arrow to do the advance search?

[J.kay]

Originally Posted by powerful_rogue

How come I didnt get a little arrow to do the advance search?

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[dvbusuario]

Nice mod, Install!

but how change method="post" to "only titles"?

[ByB]

Installed thank you very good

[momo2]

very nice, worked on 3.7.4 with no problem, if there is a way a text saying search in side and as soon your mouse hit the box make it clear ? that type the search ?

[sunrunner_pei]

Originally Posted by chimaira

Having this problem, How do i get rid of that arrow



No problem, fxied it

Originally Posted by J.kay

quote

I just did some navbar editing and ran into this problem. I was able to fix it by changing the 'id=' parameter slightly. Hope this helps someone!

Original:

<a style="text-decoration:none" href="search.php" accesskey="4" rel="nofollow" id="navbar_search" class=""></a>

Modified:

<a style="text-decoration:none" href="search.php" accesskey="4" rel="nofollow" id="navbar_search2" class=""></a>