Hopefully easy, want to add words behind "Search text"

[codybrucewilliams]

Hi there, probley an easy question for some of you, but for me its something i don't know. In the page when you click "search", the thing i wish to change is text. The very first field by default is "Search Text", what i need to do is add the words "(can be left blank)" to it. So it would look like this:

"Search Text: (can be left blank)"

I see the page SEARCH.TPL but not really sure where i would add the additional text. Is this possible?

What about if a person even wanted to delete the "Search Text and search field box" altogether? what lines should be deleted?

[Mike-N-Tosh +]

Originally Posted by codybrucewilliams

Hi there, probley an easy question for some of you, but for me its something i don't know. In the page when you click "search", the thing i wish to change is text. The very first field by default is "Search Text", what i need to do is add the words "(can be left blank)" to it. So it would look like this:

"Search Text: (can be left blank)"

I see the page SEARCH.TPL but not really sure where i would add the additional text. Is this possible?

What about if a person even wanted to delete the "Search Text and search field box" altogether? what lines should be deleted?

What you are asking about and wanting to do have to do with basic web design and (X)HTML. Although, the use of smarty text also comes into play here as well, however knowing the basics of HTML you would clearly understand and see how the smarty text and where it is being used.

I'm not sure why anyone would actually want to remove the search text and field from a web page called "Search" as that would seem to defeat the whole purpose of the page.

I think that you need to spend some time learning the basics of web design/HTML. One good place to do that is w3 schools. I would recommend spending some time learning the basics about 68 Classifieds templates. You can learn about that in the online documentation and I also have a blog article about the default template, which explains a great deal about 68's templates, smarty and getting around and working with them.

In direct answer to your first question, you would need to add the text that you would like within the search.tpl file within the label element right after the smarty search text "{$smarty.const.LANG_SEARCH_TEXT}"

[codybrucewilliams]

thank you for fast reply, will try what you suggested at the end of your reply.

I didn't mean to ask about "removing all the search page", just the "search text" writing and the search box that goes with it.

i tried adding the text behind like you suggested to no success, adding a picture so maybe I can be more clear what i am trying to do.

http://img813.imageshack.us/i/capturelgs.jpg/

[Mike-N-Tosh +]

Don't know what you actually did, but my instructions are indeed correct. In your search.tpl template file add your text right after the smarty text.

{$smarty.const.LANG_SEARCH_TEXT} (not required)

You might also want to add some inline styling as well <span style="font-size:10px;color:red;">(not required)</span>

So you would have this as the end result:

<label for="searchtext">{$smarty.const.LANG_SEARCH_TEXT} <span style="font-size:10px;color:red;">(not required)</span>{$smarty.const.LANG_COLON}</label>

[codybrucewilliams]

Thank you again so much, I did initially put it in the wrong area like this:

{$smarty.const.LANG_SEARCH_TEXT (not required)}

Got it now

Sorry again for the hassle and THANK YOU for your help! much appreciated!

[Blair +]

Alternately, you could open your languages/english.php file and redefined the value for LANG_SEARCH_TEXT by appending "(not required)" to the existing value:

PHP Code:

define('LANG_SEARCH_TEXT', 'Search Text (not required)');