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Is there any tutorial material explaining the search function.
I found the description of the search tag but, having never implemented something like this, I was looking for some basic explanations of how the function works and what formatting (CSS) is required.

Thanks.

I assume you read the documentation on the code you should use to implement the search function here.  Beyond that, what questions do you have that aren’t apparent in the doc?

You can use the default EE CSS, restyle the default EE CSS, or you can create your own.  The attributes are available in the “results” and “index” template in the “search” template group.

I assume you read the documentation on the code you should use to implement the search function here.  Beyond that, what questions do you have that aren’t apparent in the doc?

You can use the default EE CSS, restyle the default EE CSS, or you can create your own.  The attributes are available in the “results” and “index” template in the “search” template group.

Thanks for your response.

Yes I did look at the description for the code.

The “knowledge gap” for me was how to get started.
Intuitively I suspect you need to create a box into which search terms are input. How is that accomplished?
What happens to search results, how are they presented, how are they formatted?

I was looking for some tutorial material that addressed how to set up a search function.

Its actually quite straight forward.  Let me try to explain it.

You create a basic HTML form and place a input form field for your search box and a button like so:

<label for="keywords">Search:</label>

<input type="text" name="keywords" id="keywords" value="" size="18" maxlength="100" />
<input type="submit" value="submit" class="submit" />

Then, for a simple search, you wrap it in EE tags:

{exp:search:simple_form weblog="news"}

<label for="keywords">Search:</label>

<input type="text" name="keywords" id="keywords" value="" size="18" maxlength="100" />
<input type="submit" value="submit" class="submit" />

{/exp:search:simple_form}

and BAM! you have a simple search form.  Just change the weblog parm in the search:simple_form tag to which ever weblog you want to search or remove weblog param and add this to search everywhere:

{exp:search:simple_form ... search_in="everywhere"}

Here is a complete listing of search parameters.

Additionally, you can indicate a specific template where you want your search results to appear.  Note the “search_results” parameter. 

By default your EE install comes with a pre-formated “Results” template in your “Search” template group.

Hope this helps.

Thanks.

That filled the gap.

Very much appreciated.