[pmwiki-users] Hide Searchbox

Dr Fred C drfredc at verizon.net
Tue Oct 23 17:25:56 CDT 2007


Sannyasin Sivakatirswami wrote:
> Derek Lerner wrote:
>   
>> On Oct 23, 2007, at 5:24 PM, Sannyasin Sivakatirswami wrote:
>>     
>>> How can we hide the search box for people not authorized to search?
>>> and
>>> What is the setting that blocks display of search results for pages
>>> that you are not authorized to see?
>>>       
>> Possibly by making a search page that requires authentication which 
>> would contain your search box as opposed to it being tagged into the 
>> sidebar etc.. I'm sure there are other ways to do this though. By 
>> default when you are not logged in you should not be able to see any 
>> pages which have been user and password protected.
>>     
>
> Well, Iwe want to go live with this in 72 hours and
> we can break our heads on authorization management later...
>
> What if, for now, we just removed it from the side bar entirely?
>
> But, we can't find the location in the Site files where this code for the
> Search box form is installed? Is it hard coded in the core?
Without looking -- Perhaps the search box location (and appearance) is part of the skin?  I seem to recall it popping up here or there depending upon the skin one uses...   Just a hunch...   

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