Add "submit" button to search bar

How would I go about adding a submit button to the search bar. I'm currently using gallery v1.4.1-pl1

I'm not running 1.4.1, but the theory should be the same!

In albums.php, have a look for

<span class="search"> <?php echo _("Search") ?>: </span>
<input style="font-size:10px;" type="text" name="searchstring" value="" size="25"> 

and add after it
<input type="submit" name="searchsubmit" value="Whatever You Want Your Button To Say">

So mine looks like:

<span class="search"> <?php echo _("Search") ?>: </span>
<input style="font-size:10px;" type="text" name="searchstring" value="" size="25"><input type="submit" name="searchsubmit" value="Search!">

Obviously just change the "Whatever You Want Your Button To Say" to ... well, whatever you want your button to say :wink:

Don't forget to back up albums.php first, just in case anything goes horribly wrong :D

Don't forget to make the same changes in your gallery/search.php Otherwise you will still have the same old search bar on the search results page. My code looks like this around line 70 in search.php and 130 in albums.php

<!--span class="admin"> <?php echo _("Search Again") ?>: </span>-->
<input style="font-size:12px;" type="text" name="searchstring" value="" size="25">&_nbsp;&_nbsp;<input type="submit" name="searchsubmit" value="Search"></td>

Notice I commented out the words to the left of the search bar, changed the font size to 12, and added &_nbsp;&_nbsp; (obviously the underscore was added because this forum doesn't like html) to leave a space between the search bar and button. Works great, thanks to JarenTane.

I'm glad it worked. Just to clarify: the underscores should be removed between the &_nbsp. I added them so I could post the code in this forum otherwise this forum changes it to just an & without the nbsp. Sorry for any confusion.

To change the font family for the text input box simply add font-family: Verdana like this:

<input style="font-size:12px; font-family: Verdana;" type="text" name="searchstring" value="" size="25">

Changing the font family or size for the button is done the same way. Like this:

<input style="font-size:px; font-family: Verdana;" type="submit" name="searchsubmit" value="Search">

I removed the text to the left of the text input boxes: "Search Again:" or "Search:" on album page. But if you want to change the size or family just change this:

<span class="admin"> <?php echo _("Search Again") ?>: </span>
to this:

<span style="font-size:12px; font-family: verdana;"> <?php echo _("Search Again") ?>: </span>

This just seemed easier than working with a seperate css sheet. Don't forget that you'll have to make changes in both the search.php and albums.php There are several other properties of text that can be changed this way. If you are interested check out this page: http://www.devx.com/projectcool/Article/19813 Scroll down a bit to 'Font Properties'

Sorry about that, I hadn't looked at albums.php but it is very similar. Starting around line 125 of albums.php you should see something like this:

<?php echo makeFormIntro("search.php"); ?>
<span class="search"> <?php echo _("Search") ?>: </span>
<input style="font-size:10px;" type="text" name="searchstring" value="" size="25">&_nbsp;&_nbsp;<input type="submit" name="searchsubmit" value="Search">
</form>

Changing the font for the search box and the button are done exactly the same as in search.php just add style="font-size:12px; font-family: Verdana;" and so on, after the <input
To change the text to the left of the search box, in this case "Search", In album.php change this:

<span class="search"> <?php echo _("Search") ?>: </span>

to something like this:

<span style="font-size:12px; font-family: verdana;"> <?php echo _("Search") ?>: </span>

Worked when I tested it. In my experience most errors occur because there was a single " or ' or ; left out. I'm not sure why your getting yours but obviously it has something to do with what you edited. Try the above code, it should work great. Don't forget to remove the underscores in the &_nbsp :D

Just out of curiousity what Gallery version are you using?
Try changing this:
echo '<span class="search">'. _("Search") .': </span>';
to this:
echo '<span style="font-size:12px; font-family: Verdana;">'. _("Search") .': </span>';

I noticed you have added an extra 'input'. I think the following code should work:

} 
if ($numPhotos != 0) { 
echo '<td valign="middle" align="right">'; 
echo makeFormIntro('search.php', array( 
'name' => 'search_form', 
'method' => 'post')); 
echo '<span style="font-size:12px; font-family: Verdana;">'. _("Search") .': </span>'; 
echo '<input style="font-size:11px; font-family: Verdana;" type="text" name="searchstring" value="" size="20">&_nbsp;<input style="font-size:11px; font-family: Verdana;" type="submit" name="searchsubmit" value="Go!">'; 
echo '</form></td>'; 
} 
?> 

Hopefully this will have the desired effect. Good luck. :D