I’d like to make “Search anything…” more accurate.

ie. “Search Members…”, “Search Groups…”, “Search Group Forums…”

Is there an easy way to do this without hacking core?

[@gunju2221 Participant 13 years, 9 months ago]

This is what you want to change:

`if ( !empty( $_POST ) && __( ‘Search anything…’, ‘buddypress’ )` in your theme’s ajax.php

[@aljuk Member 13 years, 9 months ago]

@gunju2221 Thanks, I saw that, but as far as I can tell, that’s for the hint text if searching using ajax (?)

What I’ve done is replaced the appropriate strings in :

bp-blogs/bp-blogs-templatetags.php
bp-core/bp-core-templatetags.php
bp-forums/bp-forums-templatetags.php
bp-groups/bp-groups-templatetags.php

which appears to have done the trick. Searches are working fine, as is the hint text.

Let me know if you foresee any problem with this!

[@r-a-y Keymaster 13 years, 9 months ago]

Use a language file:
https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/

[@aljuk Member 13 years, 9 months ago]

Awesome, thanks @r-a-y .

[@aljuk Member 13 years, 9 months ago]

For anyone reading this thread, definitely do as suggested above, not as I did, which led to some unforseen complications.

[@cezar Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

the language file has only one instance of “Search anything” so you can’t have a different message in the search boxes. how did you do it?

[@valuser Participant 13 years, 6 months ago]

Could @aljuk elaborate on the unforseen complications that arose from replacing the appropriate strings in bp-blogs/bp-blogs-templatetags.php etc. ?

[@aljuk Member 13 years, 6 months ago]

@cezar – I didn’t, for the precise reason you mentioned.

@valuser – it broke the search on those directories.

Changing it for certain other plugins that make use of search (Buddyvents, Global Forums) has been successful, and I did that by straightforward hacking those plugins.

[@d3creative Member 13 years, 5 months ago]

@cezar “the language file has only one instance of “Search anything” so you can’t have a different message in the search boxes. how did you do it?”

Anyone found a workaround for this?

[@uloga Member 13 years, 5 months ago]

ok I’ve made something really fast for you….

0.1 place this function into your functions file at the end of the closing php tag ” ?> ” !

`
<?php
function uloga_directory_search_form( $directory ) {
global $bp;
$form_id = ‘search-‘ . $directory . ‘-form’;
$input_id = $directory . ‘_sarch’;
$submit_id = $directory . ‘_search_submit’;

$search_value = __( ‘Search ‘ . $directory, ‘buddypress’ );
if ( !empty( $_REQUEST ) )
$search_value = $_REQUEST;

?>
<form action="" method="get" id="”>
<input type="text" name="s" id="” value=”” onfocus=”if (this.value == ”) {this.value = ”;}” onblur=”if (this.value == ”) {this.value = ”;}” />
<input type="submit" id="” name=”groups_search_submit” value=”” />

<?php
}
?>

`

0.2 now you have to change the bp_directory_members_search_form() function with uloga_directory_search_form( $directory ) ,replace $directory for example with “Members”
or “Groups” ,etc.

[@uloga Member 13 years, 5 months ago]

p.s i mean you have to replace bp_directory_members_search_form() with the new function in your theme directory files.