Custom post_type search pages

Question

So I have a section on my site that specifically searches a custom post type for YouTube videos. I'm absolutely able to search the custom type. However, I'm unsure how to create a search page that has custom formatting geared toward this type of search.

I've created a custom loop-youtube.php and modified within search.php get_template_part( 'loop'); to get_template_part( 'loop', 'youtube'); however, it affects the search results globally.

Is there a way to create a custom search.php page for a specific post_type?

Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

How are you restricting the search to your custom post type? If you are doing it by passing an additional argument, i.e. &type=myCustomPostType, you could use a conditional test, like:

if(isset($_GET['type'] && $_GET['type'] == 'myCustomPostType')):
  get_template_part('loop','youtube');
else:
 get_template_part(loop);
endif;

Answer 2

I have my search page split up like this:

<?php if ($wp_query->query_vars['post_type'] == 'post') { 
 // output for posts format
} else {
 // output for other formats
} ?>

I think query_vars is more efficient than $_GET in this case.