Drupal 6: search url localization

For any language, search urls are:

/search
/search/node/keyword1 keyword2

With this tutorial:

• change “search” for non-English pages
• remove “node”

Example (French):

/recherche
/recherche/keyword1 keyword2

Note: the modifications can be lost during a Drupal upgrade.

Download the modified search module or make the following modifications:

In search_menu(), replace

$items['search'] = array(

by

$items[t('search')] = array(

In search_get_keys, replace

$path = explode('/', $_GET['q'], 3);

by

$path = explode('/', $_GET['q'], 2);

and

$return = count($path) == 3 ? $path[2] : $keys;

by

$return = count($path) == 2 ? $path[1] : $keys;

In search_box_form_submit($form, &$form_state), replace

$form_state['redirect'] = 'search/node/'. trim($form_state['values'][$form_id]);

by

$form_state['redirect'] = t('search') . '/'. trim($form_state['values'][$form_id]);

Replace

function search_view($type = 'node') {

by

function search_view() { 
$type = 'node';

Replace

$form_state['redirect'] = 'search/'. $type .'/'. $keys;

by

$form_state['redirect'] = t('search') . '/'. $keys;

• in a browser, load the search page for every language. Examples: 'fr/search', 'de/search'.
• add translations for the string “search” in the admin (/admin/build/translate/search)

/search is themed with page-search.tpl.php so its French counterpart, /recherche, would be themed with page-recherche.tpl.php. To avoid this and keep using page-search.tpl.php for all languages, add to template.php:

function phptemplate_preprocess_page(&$vars) {	
	if(strpos($vars['body_classes'], 'page-' . t('search'))) {
		$vars['template_files'][] = 'page-search';
	}
}