You can easily add a search form anywhere in your templates which will search specific classes, subtrees etc.

Subtree search

You can use the POST variables SubTreeArray[] to specify specific searches in one or more subtrees. Here you see an example which will search from node 42 and 100.

<form�action={"/content/search/"|ezurl}�method="get">

<input�class="searchbox"�type="text"�size="8"�name="SearchText"�id="Search"�value=""�/>

<input�class="searchbutton"�name="SearchButton"�type="submit"�value="Search"�/>

<input�type="hidden"�name="SubTreeArray[]"�value="42"�/>

<input�type="hidden"�name="SubTreeArray[]"�value="100"�/>

</form>

Class search

You can search specific classes. For example you can search only forum messages, articles, products etc. This only works with the advanced search.

Below is an example of how you can create a search form which only searches in objects of class 14.

<form�action={"/content/advancedsearch/"|ezurl}�method="get">

<input�class="searchbox"�type="text"�size="8"�name="SearchText"�id="Search"�value=""�/>

<input�class="searchbutton"�name="SearchButton"�type="submit"�value="Search"�/>

<input�type="hidden"�name="SearchContentClassID"�value="14"�/>

</form>

Attribute based search

You can search in specific attributes only. The following example will search only in the description attribute of the Folder class:

<form action={"/content/advancedsearch/"|ezurl} method="get">

   Search in folder description:

   <input type="hidden" name="Content_search_attribute_fulltext_classattribute_id[]" value="156" />

   <input type="text" name="Content_search_attribute_fulltext_value[]" value="{$search_array_by_class_attribute_id['156']['value']}" />

   <input type="submit" value="Search" name="SearchButton">

</form>

Note:
- You must set AllowEmptySearch=enabled in [SearchSettings] in your site.ini(.append) for this to work, because the normal search field is not used.
- The content attribute is specified by ID. The ID may be different on your installation. See the class view for your attribute IDs.
- If you search by several attributes at once, you will only get results where all attributes match. In other words, only AND search is supported, not OR or NOT search.

These attribute search types are supported:

You need one form element for each search parameter. The elements should be named "Content_search_attribute_(SEARCH TYPE)_(PARAMETER)[]". This example illustrates the "byrange" search type:

<form action={"/content/advancedsearch/"|ezurl} method="get">

   <input type="hidden" name="Content_search_attribute_byrange_classattribute_id[]" value="42" />

   <input type="text" name="Content_search_attribute_byrange_from[]" value="{$search_array_by_class_attribute_id['42']['from']}" />

   <input type="text" name="Content_search_attribute_byrange_to[]" value="{$search_array_by_class_attribute_id['42']['to']}" />

   <input type="submit" value="Search" name="SearchButton">

</form>