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Mihailo

Hi!
First of all, I love your videos, helped me a lot!! Thank you so much!

I have made searchform.php. I would like to know how can I make a button next to the form so I can click it and search?

Thanks in advance!

marcosdipaolo

Hi there,
did you get the search form through the get_search_form(); wordpress built-in function?

Mihailo

marcosdipaolo Yes. <?php get_search_form(); ?>

This: https://i.imgur.com/AhJdgdu.png

Thank you!

Mihailo

And how can I add autocomplete? If user starts typing "Good" it displays him suggestions? Like on php.net website. http://prntscr.com/k3xchg

Alecaddd

Mihailo That's a feature that needs to be implemented with some proper code in order to search your database and find matches while the user is typing. It's not just like calling a simple "add autocomplete" command.

Here's a Gist example on how you could do it:

marcosdipaolo

get_search_form(); should give you a button, if you don't have it someone took it out, did you build that theme from scratch?
Not a specialist here, so not familiar with the autocomplete stuff but it should be possible, you should ask yourself what data you would like to suggest and where is coming from.
cheers

Mihailo

Alecaddd Thank you. It's working fine.

I was wondering you I add somehow: when I click on autocomplete suggestion for example: Hello world! it automatically searchs that Hello world!. site.com/search=Hello+world ?