Custom Search fields on /search pages

*bump* anyone???

The advanced search box has too many options on it. After looking closer into the custom search settings, I can see that I can turn off the OR, And and Negative boxes, as well as reducing the content types. Thanks for suggesting that :)

However, how can I remove the category box and also how can i make the advanced search box show as expanded rather than closed (on the page, you have to click Advanced Search to see the options)?

Actually, I have used CSS to remove the category selection box:

.search-advanced .fieldset-wrapper #edit-category-wrapper {
display:none
}

However, I still have the issue of it being collapsed on load and that the search box is displaying the types - I only want it to display their search terms, not the types. I'm going to take a look at the js that controls the advanced search collapsed and expanded states to see if I can add it to my own js files but with my own function.

I have figured it out!

To deal with the expand/collapse issue, I used:

function mytheme_theme() {
    return array(
        'search_form' => array(
          'arguments' => array('form' => NULL)
        ),
    );
}

function mytheme_search_form($form) {
    $form['advanced']['#collapsible'] = FALSE;
    $form['advanced']['#collapsed'] = FALSE;

    return drupal_render($form);
}

To deal with the content types in the search box issue, I used this in search-results.tpl.php:

<script type="text/javascript">
    function hidefilters(field_id) {
      val = document.getElementById(field_id).value;
      newval = val.replace(/( [a-zA-Z]*:[a-zA-Z0-9_-]*).*/, '');
      document.getElementById(field_id).value = newval;
    }
    hidefilters('edit-keys');
</script>
(reference http://drupal.org/node/141788)