Customising the navbar template - Search link

[Gizzard]

Hi all,

I'm trying to apply our University branding to the harvester - all the navbar links work ok but I can't find where the "Search" link is created. In templates/common/navbar.tpl there is this reference:

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{call_hook name="Templates::Common::Header::Navbar"}

but I don't know where the actual link lies?

Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks,
Gary

[Gizzard]

Hello again,

I suppose this also leads me to the question of this syntax in general ie. what does the syntax Templates::Common::Header::Navbar denote? Classes? Templates? And where can they be found? For example, now I want to edit the left sidebar code, but can't find it:

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{call_hook|assign:"leftSidebarCode" name="Templates::Common::LeftSidebar"}

Thanks,
Gary

[jmacgreg]

Hi Gary,

The code you are seeing is a plugin hook -- it simply establishes a spot in the code where a plugin can insert new custom code. In this case, the new code being inserted is generated by whichever search plugin you are using, most likely the generic MySQL Index Search plugin. What exactly are you trying to accomplish? If you can give me a bit more detail, I can suggest ways to modify that part of the interface.

Cheers,
James

[Gizzard]

Ah ok, thanks James,

I'm trying to apply our University styling to an Open Harvester instance. In this particular case, for example, the search link in the navbar template needs to have a <span> element inserted so my Uni stylesheets can pick it up and apply the appropriate CSS styles.

Regards,
Gary

[jmacgreg]

Hi Gary,

Gotcha. You may have decent enough luck wrapping your span tag around that plugin hook call -- give that a try and if you can't get the result you're looking for, let me know and I'll look further into how to style the plugin itself.

Cheers,
James

[Gizzard]

Thanks James,
Wrapping the <span> around the hook call didn't work, but I managed to find where the link is created in the plugin. For those interested, it's in plugins/generic/mysqlIndex/MysqlIndexPlugin.inc.php, and the function is:

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        /**
         * Add the search link to the header.
         */
        function navBarCallback($hookName, $args) {
                $output =& $args[2];
                $output .= '<li><a href="' . Request::url('misearch', 'index') . '">' . Locale::translate('navigation.search') . '</a></li>';
                return false;
        }

Cheers,
Gary