Render a search form.

Parameters

$action: Form action. Defaults to "search".

$keys: The search string entered by the user, containing keywords for the search.

$type: The type of search to render the node for. Must be the name of module which implements hook_search(). Defaults to 'node'.

$prompt: A piece of text to put before the form (e.g. "Enter your keywords")

Return value

A Form API array for the search form.

Related topics

File

drupal-6.x/modules/search/search.module, line 1022

Enables site-wide keyword searching.

Code

function search_form(&$form_state, $action = '', $keys = '', $type = NULL, $prompt = NULL) {

  // Add CSS
  drupal_add_css(drupal_get_path('module', 'search') . '/search.css', 'module', 'all', FALSE);

  if (!$action) {
    $action = url('search/' . $type);
  }
  if (is_null($prompt)) {
    $prompt = t('Enter your keywords');
  }

  $form = array(
    '#action' => $action,
    '#attributes' => array('class' => 'search-form'),
  );
  $form['module'] = array('#type' => 'value', '#value' => $type);
  $form['basic'] = array('#type' => 'item', '#title' => $prompt, '#id' => 'edit-keys');
  $form['basic']['inline'] = array('#prefix' => '<div class="container-inline">', '#suffix' => '</div>');
  $form['basic']['inline']['keys'] = array(
    '#type' => 'textfield',
    '#title' => '',
    '#default_value' => $keys,
    '#size' => $prompt ? 40 : 20,
    '#maxlength' => 255,
  );
  // processed_keys is used to coordinate keyword passing between other forms
  // that hook into the basic search form.
  $form['basic']['inline']['processed_keys'] = array('#type' => 'value', '#value' => array());
  $form['basic']['inline']['submit'] = array('#type' => 'submit', '#value' => t('Search'));

  return $form;
}