Can I add a Gallery2 search box to my website (without resorting to Google)?

http://gallery.menalto.com/node/94321#comment-335056
You will need to edit the file, not sure about subdomain pathing. Then add the Javascript.

Dave
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Also I added the javascript in my head tags... <script type="text/javascript" src="http://gallery2.opalcat.com/gallery2/modules/search/SearchBlock.js"></script> ...like the other thread said, but when I click into the search box the text doesn't disappear for me, either, just like the person in that thread said. I don't know anything about javascript so I woudln't be able to edit that file in any meaningful way, or tell you what any part of it was doing...

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WebKat, Gallery2 holdover extraordinaire.

in order to add a new searchBlock you need to edit /modules/search/templates/blocks/blocks.inc and add your new block to the array:

$blocks['SearchBlockNarrow'] = array(
    'description' => $gallery->i18n('Search box narrow'),
    'vars' => array(
    'showAdvancedLink' => array(
        'description' => $gallery->i18n('Show advanced link'),
        'default' => 'true',
        'type' => 'boolean')));

and in /modules/search/Preloads.inc add case 'SearchBlockNarrow':

	case 'SearchBlock':
        case 'SearchBlockNarrow':

and then your template would be /modules/search/templates/blocks/SearchBlockNarrow.tpl should look something like:

{*
 * $Revision: 17650 $
 * Read this before changing templates!  http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:Editing_Templates
 *}
{if !isset($showAdvancedLink)} {assign var="showAdvancedLink" value="true"} {/if}
<script type="text/javascript" src="{g->url href="modules/search/SearchBlock.js" forceFullUrl=true forceDirect=true}"></script>


<div class="{$class}">
  <form id="search_SearchBlock" action="{g->url}" method="get" onsubmit="return search_SearchBlock_checkForm()">
    <div>
      {g->hiddenFormVars}
      <input type="hidden" name="{g->formVar var="view"}" value="search.SearchScan"/>
      <input type="hidden" name="{g->formVar var="form[formName]"}" value="search_SearchBlock"/>
      <input type="text" id="searchCriteria" size="18"
         name="{g->formVar var="form[searchCriteria]"}"
         value="{g->text text="Search the Gallery"}"
         onfocus="search_SearchBlock_focus()"
         onblur="search_SearchBlock_blur()"
         class="textbox"/>
      <input type="hidden" name="{g->formVar var="form[useDefaultSettings]"}" value="1" />
    </div>
    {if $showAdvancedLink}
    <div>
      <a href="{g->url arg1="view=search.SearchScan" arg2="form[useDefaultSettings]=1"
               arg3="return=1"}"
     class="{g->linkId view="search.SearchScan"} advanced">{g->text text="Advanced Search"}</a>
    </div>
    {/if}
  </form>
</div>

<script type="text/javascript">
    if(typeof(document.getElementById('search_SearchBlock') != undefined))
    search_SearchBlock_init('Search the Gallery', 'Please enter a search term.', 'Searching in progress, please wait!');
</script>

then visit http://gallery2.opalcat.com/gallery2/displayBlock.php?listAll=1 to get a list of all available blocks and make sure yours shows up.

tested http://testr.suprsidr.com/displayBlock.php?blockName=SearchBlockNarrow

-s
FlashYourWeb and Your Gallery with The E2 XML Media Player for Gallery2

I think I need a little more hand holding on this one, if you don't mind too terribly much. Here is what I've changed, but I'm not sure I put everything in the right places...

/modules/search/templates/blocks/blocks.inc

<?php
$blocks['SearchBlock'] = array(
    'description' => $gallery->i18n('Search box'),
    'vars' => array(
	'showAdvancedLink' => array(
	    'description' => $gallery->i18n('Show advanced link'),
	    'default' => 'true',
	    'type' => 'boolean')));
		
$blocks['SearchBlockNarrow'] = array(
    'description' => $gallery->i18n('Search box narrow'),
    'vars' => array(
    'showAdvancedLink' => array(
        'description' => $gallery->i18n('Show advanced link'),
        'default' => 'false',
        'type' => 'boolean')));
?>

/modules/search/Preloads.inc

<?php
/*(removed extraneous expository content for brevity) */

class SearchPreloads {
    function preload(&$template, $preload, $paramSet) {
	global $gallery;

	switch($preload) {
	case 'SearchBlock':
	    $template->javascript('modules/search/SearchBlock.js');
	    return null;
	case 'SearchBlockNarrow':
	}

	return GalleryCoreApi::error(ERROR_BAD_PARAMETER);
    }
}
?>

I also tried this placement:

/modules/search/Preloads.inc

<?php
/*(removed extraneous expository content for brevity) */

class SearchPreloads {
    function preload(&$template, $preload, $paramSet) {
	global $gallery;

	switch($preload) {
	case 'SearchBlock':
	case 'SearchBlockNarrow':
	    $template->javascript('modules/search/SearchBlock.js');
	    return null;
	}

	return GalleryCoreApi::error(ERROR_BAD_PARAMETER);
    }
}
?>

/modules/search/templates/blocks/SearchBlockNarrow.tpl

{*
 * $Revision: 17650 $
 * Read this before changing templates!  http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:Editing_Templates
 *}
{if !isset($showAdvancedLink)} {assign var="showAdvancedLink" value="true"} {/if}
<script type="text/javascript" src="{g->url href="modules/search/SearchBlock.js" forceFullUrl=true forceDirect=true}"></script>


<div class="{$class}">
  <form id="search_SearchBlock" action="{g->url}" method="get" onsubmit="return search_SearchBlock_checkForm()">
    <div>
      {g->hiddenFormVars}
      <input type="hidden" name="{g->formVar var="view"}" value="search.SearchScan"/>
      <input type="hidden" name="{g->formVar var="form[formName]"}" value="search_SearchBlock"/>
      <input type="text" id="searchCriteria" size="15"
         name="{g->formVar var="form[searchCriteria]"}"
         value="{g->text text="Search the Gallery"}"
         onfocus="search_SearchBlock_focus()"
         onblur="search_SearchBlock_blur()"
         class="textbox"/>
      <input type="hidden" name="{g->formVar var="form[useDefaultSettings]"}" value="1" />
    </div>
    {if $showAdvancedLink}
    <div>
      <a href="{g->url arg1="view=search.SearchScan" arg2="form[useDefaultSettings]=1"
               arg3="return=1"}"
     class="{g->linkId view="search.SearchScan"} advanced">{g->text text="Advanced Search"}</a>
    </div>
    {/if}
  </form>
</div>

<script type="text/javascript">
    if(typeof(document.getElementById('search_SearchBlock') != undefined))
    search_SearchBlock_init('Search the Gallery', 'Please enter a search term.', 'Searching in progress, please wait!');
</script>

I did all of that and uploaded it. Then I went to http://gallery2.opalcat.com/gallery2/displayBlock.php?listAll=1 and got a blank page. Even the source code was blank. (I tried two different ways to edit the Preloads.inc, as you can see, but neither of them made anything different happen--perhaps there is a third, correct placement. Heh.)

This the code I use to calld the block on my site:

<?php @readfile('http://gallery2.opalcat.com/gallery2/displayBlock.php?blockName=SearchBlockNarrow');?>

I tried it, like this:

<!--gallery search-->
	<div class="left_menu_fix">
	<?php @readfile('http://gallery2.opalcat.com/gallery2/displayBlock.php?blockName=SearchBlockNarrow');?>
	</div>
<!--end gallery search-->

And what I saw on the page in the sourcecode when I loaded the page was this:

<!--gallery search-->

	<div class="left_menu_fix">

	
	</div>

<!--end gallery search-->

So obviously I've taken a wrong turn here, somewhere. Now, before, when I was winging it, I came up with a template that looked like this (the site is opalcat.com, the gallery is gallery2.opalcat.com so I hardcoded some of the urls, but I'm not sure if I got them all right...) and it DID show up on my page... and when I tried a search, it worked... but there may be something wrong with it that I haven't thought of, I don't know. I also used some other, in-line javascript code to clear out the value text when you click into the search box because I could never get the gallery's js to do it:

{*
 * $Revision: 17650 $
 * Read this before changing templates!  http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:Editing_Templates
 *}
{if !isset($showAdvancedLink)} {assign var="showAdvancedLink" value="false"} {/if}

{g->addToTrailer}
<script type="text/javascript">
  // <![CDATA[
  search_SearchBlock_init('{g->text text="Search the Gallery" forJavascript=true}', '{g->text text="Please enter a search term." forJavascript=true}', '{g->text text="Searching in progress, please wait!" forJavascript=true}');
  // ]]>
</script>
{/g->addToTrailer}

<div class="block-search-SearchBlock">
<form id="search_SearchBlock" action="http://gallery2.opalcat.com/gallery2/" method="get" onsubmit="return search_SearchBlock_checkForm()">
<div>
<input type="hidden" name="g2_return" value="http://gallery2.opalcat.com/gallery2/?g2_ckName=SearchBlock"/>
<input type="hidden" name="g2_formUrl" value="http://gallery2.opalcat.com/gallery2/?g2_ckName=SearchBlock"/>
<input type="hidden" name="g2_authToken" value="94ae04857f69"/>

<input type="hidden" name="g2_view" value="search.SearchScan"/>
<input type="hidden" name="g2_form[formName]" value="search_SearchBlock"/>
<input type="text" id="searchCriteria" size="15"
name="g2_form[searchCriteria]"
value="Gallery Search"
onclick="this.value='';" 
onfocus="this.select()" 
onblur="this.value=!this.value?'Gallery Search':this.value;"
class="textbox"/>
<input type="hidden" name="g2_form[useDefaultSettings]" value="1" />
</div>
</form>
</div>

It shows up in the upper left column at http://opalcat.com if you want to test it. I still can't get http://gallery2.opalcat.com/gallery2/displayBlock.php?listAll=1 to show anything at all...
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WebKat, Gallery2 holdover extraordinaire.

The current SearchBlockNarrow is my hacked up one with all of the hardcoded urls and such. I renamed the SearchBlockNarrow that you gave me to something else while I tested it... the one you gave me just didn't show up at all. It was just empty where the code should be

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WebKat, Gallery2 holdover extraordinaire.