Drupal 6 - Theme custom search form results

Question

I have a custom search form written in my custom-module. On submit, i have used do_search api and then I have made some modifications/customization with the results.

Now having my customized results, how can I render them?

Work so far--->

• In custom-module.module

  function custom_module_search_ticket_form_submit($form, $form_state) {
     // do_search()
     //  customizations (in the sense, removed few results according to my requirements. Otherwise the result-object/array format is same as of core search results) 
  
      return theme('rootcandy_my_search_results', $results, $type);
  }
  
  function custom_module_theme() {
    return array(
      'rootcandy_my_search_result' => array(
        'arguments' => array('result' => NULL, 'type' => NULL),
        'template' => 'rootcandy-my-search-result',
      ),
      'rootcandy_my_search_results' => array(
        'arguments' => array('results' => NULL, 'type' => NULL),
        'template' => 'rootcandy-my-search-results',
      ),
    );
  }
  

• Rootcandy is the theme I have used. In rootcandy's template.php

  function rootcandy_preprocess_rootcandy_my_search_results (&$vars)  {
    // copied lines from core search module's search.pages.inc function template_preprocess_search_results(&$vars)
  }
  
  function rootcandy_preprocess_rootcandy_my_search_result (&$vars) {
    // copied lines from core search module's search.pages.inc function template_preprocess_search_result(&$vars) 
  }
  

• Under rootcandy theme folder, Added below tpl.php files

  rootcandy-my-search-results.tpl.php  (copied from core search's search-results.tpl.php)
  rootcandy-my-search-result.tpl.php   (copied from core search's search-result.tpl.php)
  

Now I have done this much, clearing cache, after everything; Submitting my custom-search-form renders nothing, other than the form. When I print my customized results, they are fine. Theming part is not working.

Where is the mistake? Plz help !

Answer 1

Whatever u have done so far is correct. Only thing left now is to render the content from ur preprocess 'rootcandy_preprocess_rootcandy_my_search_results' to ur 'rootcandy-my-search-results.tpl.php'. U have to start debugging in this way.

1. Check ur $vars['form'] contains ur form values in 'rootcandy_preprocess_rootcandy_my_search_results'

2. create a variable in preprocess and try using it in ur rootcandy-my-search-results.tpl.php. Eg: $vars['testing'] = "this is to confirm that variable is working in rootcandy-my-search-results.tpl.php"

3. if you print $testing in ur rootcandy-my-search-results.tpl.php and it gives "this is to confirm that variable is working in rootcandy-my-search-results.tpl.php" Which means its working fine.

4. Then you can pass ur form results to the tpl file. Eg: $vars['result'] = drupal_render($vars['form']['result']);

Try this. Ur first goal will be making sure u can get ur preprocess values in ur tpl file.