WordPress Search Queries

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I have added within my WordPress 3.1 site, the following code at the bottom of my sidebar.php file: 

    <div id="search_box">
      <form id="searchform" action="http://www.service.com/" method="get" role="search">
          <input id="s" type="text" name="s" class="search" value="Search site" size="19" maxlength="80" id="white_box" onfocus="if (this.value=='Search site') this.value = ''"/>
          <input id="searchsubmit" type="image" class="submit" value="submit" src="<?php bloginfo( 'template_url' ); ?>/images/search_btn.jpg" />
      </form>
    </div>

As I have coded this search process myself, when I place a some text within my search text box and press the “Search” button, it looks as if, is is calling the page search.php within my theme and displaying the results.

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Questions:

1) where/how does it know when I press the “Search” button to go off and call search.php?

2) if possible only, how can I change it to call a different php file instead of the search.php

Thanks.

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3 comments

  1. Use template filter

    add_filter( 'template_include', 'template_include', 10 );

    and change the template as

    function template_include($template)
{

    if(your condition here){
        $template = get_template_directory().'/your-template.php';
    }

    return $template;
}

    1. WordPress assumes the request is a search if it sees an ‘s’ GET variable.

    2. You can hook into the template_redirect action (in your theme’s functions.php file) and load a different template like so:

      add_action('template_redirect', 'my_template_select');
function my_template_select() {
  if (is_search()) {
    load_template(TEMPLATEPATH . '/foobar.php');
    exit;
  } 
}