How to add search form in main page body?

Question

I'm fairly new to wordpress. I'm trying to develop a website with search option to find available room information.

I would like to add a search box where people would be able to enter their information and hit the Search button. Then it'll display the available rooms. Something like the below website

http://www.easytobook.com/?amu=1972100201

If it's a duplicate question please accept my apologies.

Thanks.

Answer 1

I just wanted to add two small things for other peoples....

if your template supports it you can just add :

<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/searchform.php'); ?>

2.adding the following code will put a text inside the search box. (like "Write your search and hit Enter" )

<form method="get" id="searchform" action="<?php bloginfo('home'); ?>/">
<div><input type="text" size="put_a_size_here" name="s" id="s" value="Write your search and hit Enter" onfocus="if(this.value==this.defaultValue)this.value='';" onblur="if(this.value=='')this.value=this.defaultValue;"/>
<input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" value="Search" class="btn" />
</div>
</form>

and finally, combining those two advices, just save the code from part two as searchform.php in your template folder, and you can always call it with method number 1.

Answer 2

Please add this to your header.php file beside the RSS icon.

<form method="get" id="searchform" action="<?php bloginfo('home'); ?>/">
<div><input type="text" size="18" value="<?php echo wp_specialchars($s, 1); ?>" name="s" id="s" />
<input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" value="Search" class="btn" />
</div>
</form>

....this is simple search form...