How to disable search function?

[avord]

Hello,

I would like to disable "search" field and button from the main page of my forum. Please advice.

Thanks

[avord]

Anyone can help me?
I tried to delete this code from /themes/celeste/index.template.php
            <form id="search_form" style="margin: 0;" action="', $scripturl, '?action=search2" method="post" accept-charset="', $context['character_set'], '">
               <input type="text" name="search" value="" class="input_text" />&nbsp;
               <input type="submit" name="submit" value="', $txt['search'], '" class="button_submit" />
               <input type="hidden" name="advanced" value="0" />';
</form>

But after this I'm getting Template parse error.
Is there any other way to disable search field and search button from the main page of my forum?

Thanks

[Matthew K.]

Would you please attach your index.template.php? By the way, welcome to the SMF Community!

[avord]

Sure. Here it is:


Thanks!

[Matthew K.]

Try this.

Best Regards,
Doctor Octopus

[SlammedDime]

Your topic title and post are confusing... do you want to actually disable the search function altogether or just not make it visible?  If you want to disable it, you can easily do that by removing the permissions to search from each membergroup.

[Matthew K.]

From the topic starters second post, it appears they want to just remove it from the index.

[avord]

Try this.

Best Regards,
Doctor Octopus

It's removed now! Thanks a lot for your help! I really appreciate it

[Matthew K.]

No problem Glad it worked!