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I started now to add the Typo3 indexed search to some of my websites.

But how to add a searchbox on top of the website? There are several extensions for this, but some simple TypoScript is sufficiant. The following code in my template generates such a box (see on top of this page). The style is done of course by CSS.

temp.searchbox >
temp.searchbox = COA
temp.searchbox {

  20 = TEXT
  # pid of page including index_search plugin
  20.typolink.parameter = 46
  20.typolink.returnLast = url
  20.wrap = <form action="|" method="post"><span>

  30 = TEXT
  30.value = <input name="tx_indexedsearch[sword]" value="Search item..." \
      type="text" title="Search the homepage." onfocus="javascript:this.value=''" />

  40 = TEXT
  40.value = <input name="submit" value="Search" type="submit" class="submit" />

  50 = TEXT
  50.value = </span></form>

  wrap = <div class="absearchbox">|</div>

}

page.10.subparts.SEARCHBOX < temp.searchbox

On a multilanguage site like www.weltcafe-dresden.de you can add a simple language switch like the following for German (L=0, Default) and English (L=1):

[globalVar = GP:L = 1]

temp.searchbox {

  30.value = <input name="tx_indexedsearch[sword]" value="Search item..." \
        type="text" title="Search the weltcafe-dresden homepage." onfocus="javascript:this.value=''" />
  40.value = <input name="submit" value="Search" type="submit" class="submit" />

}

[else]

temp.searchbox {

  30.value = <input name="tx_indexedsearch[sword]" value="Suchbegriff..." \
        type="text" title="Durchsuchen Sie die weltcafe-dresden Seite." onfocus="javascript:this.value=''" />
  40.value = <input name="submit" value="Suchen" type="submit" class="submit" />

}

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