Polylang and search action

Hi!

This should help you:
https://polylang.wordpress.com/2014/11/04/always-use-get_search_form-to-create-search-forms/

The problem with get search form is that it doesn’t allow you to theme variants, for example, on your main page, you probably just want a box, but in the search results page, you can have a filtering, more advanced one. it would be good if they added a templating suffix where you cna call get search form (true, ‘variantX’) to call from search-form-variantx.php in your theme

In your functions.php

function my_search_form($html) {
 $html = … // here you can either customize the WordPress builtin search form or totally overwrite it
 return $html;
}

In your template file

add_filter(‘get_search_form’, ‘my_search_form’);
get_search_form();

Thus you can have as much search forms as you want ??

It is too hacky when you have an extended search form (html shouldn’t belong in functions.php) mine is more than 60 lines with php calls to print out tags as checkboxes for example, while checking them against the previous GET to fill/unfill them, I am not even sure if some of those would when called at that level.

$search_form_template = locate_template( 'searchform.php' );
if ( '' != $search_form_template ) {
	ob_start();
	require( $search_form_template );
	$form = ob_get_clean();
}

This is how WP uses searchform.php. You can do the same in your own function hooked to get_search_form.

If you don’t pass your search form through the get_search_form filter, it can’t be compatible with plugins needing to access it.