Help with Search module

[frontline3k]

Just started to convert my html template to CMSMadeSimple (wonderful piece of software btw) 

After studying wiki and forums, I can't find the way to solve my problems with the search module.
So here we go:

1. The {search} module inserted in my page doesn't look as good as I want, so ... I wanted to use my design for the search box.
Shortly, a text box and an image to submit the query, without using the {search} global module in my page.

So, I created my own form, like this (this is taken from source code of the default install):

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          <form id="cntnt01moduleform_1" name="cntnt01moduleform_1" method="get" action="index.php">
            <input type="text" name="cntnt01searchinput" id="cntnt01searchinput"/>
            <input type="image" src="images/search.gif" width="15" height="16"/>
            <input type="hidden" name="mact" value="Search,cntnt01,dosearch,0" />
          </form>

It's kind of working ... but I didn't find a way to pass the parameters lang and resultpage: (something like this {search lang='ro_RO' resultpage="News"}).
Maybe it's not the best solution. If there is a link to help with my problem ... I would appreciate

2. The search module doesn't search in Global Content Blocks.
For an easier administration, I break the design in blocks, and I can show them when and if I need them.

P.S: I'm using CMS Made Simple 1.0.4 "Lanai".

Thanks in advance for helping.
Have a nice day.

[RonnyK]

frontline3k,

I use

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{search  searchtext="" resultpage="result"}

to make this run. "resultpage" is the page you want the results in. "searchtext" is the default value in the search-box. The language of the button is set by the default language of the frontend, through "Site admin -> Global Settings".

By the way, more information is available under "Extensions -> Search -> Help"

Ronny

EDIT: Sorry, this post is not answering your question. I've read it again, and you don't want to know about {search}

This post is about styling the default search:

http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... 181.0.html

[frontline3k]

Hello.

I know that, the problem is  I can't use the calling of the global module {search} (I can't customize the Search Template to fit my needs ... or at least I can't do it so far  )

About the language ... thanks for the tip .. I will investigate it further 

Later edit: thanks for the link, I'm trying to do smth like this ....

Regards,
Sorin

[frontline3k]

Kind of ... sort of ... solve it

In Search module, I modified Search Template with smth like this:

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{$startform}
<td valign="middle"><input type="text" name="cntnt01searchinput" id="cntnt01searchinput" class="searchbox"/></td>
<td valign="middle" align="right"> <input type="image" src="images/search.gif" width="15" height="16"/>{$hidden}</td>
{$endform}

and call it with

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{search resultpage="search"}

Any idea about why the search module does not search in global content blocks ? 

Regards,
Sorin

[cyberman]

Any idea about why the search module does not search in global content blocks ? 

... cause they are not indexed  .

[frontline3k]

... and the magic question: how can I index them ? 

I've created a few pages and used a modular design, with large part of them in blocks, for an easier editing and maintaining.

Any idea ?

[cyberman]

Haven't tried yet but maybe pageblocks would be the better (indexed ?) solution 

http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/projects/pageblocks/