How to remove "Users" tab from search form.

By skinnydog on 23 Nov 2007 at 00:21 UTC

How do I remove the "users" search tab displayed on the search results page. I do not want people to search users.

-scott

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VM commented 23 November 2007 at 00:32

even if you remove the tab someone can point to yoursite.com/search/user

I believe you will have to create a custom search.tpl.php, information is available in the handbooks -> theme development section

Try this...

Keeling commented 23 November 2007 at 05:32

1. See this link here for how to strip unwanted tabs
2. Use Taxonomy Access to prevent users from pointing to yoursite.com/search/user

Good luck!

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thanks

skinnydog commented 23 November 2007 at 17:39

thanks that worked great.

D5: don't grant "access user profiles"

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commented 11 June 2008 at 03:54

Note that this tab only appears if you have "access user profiles" permission. You may only be seeing this tab because you're logged in as an administrator, or because the current role has been granted that permission.

This UI is added by user.module using hook_search()

<?phpfunction

himagarwal commented 22 July 2008 at 11:22

<?php
function _phptemplate_variables($hook, $vars = array()) {

  if($hook == 'page') {
    yourthemename_removetab('address book', $vars);
    // add additional lines here to remove other tabs
  }

  return $vars;
}

function yourthemename_removetab($label, &$vars) {
  $tabs = explode("\n", $vars['tabs']);
  $vars['tabs'] = '';

  foreach($tabs as $tab) {
    if(strpos($tab, '>' . $label . '<') === FALSE) {
      $vars['tabs'] .= $tab . "\n";
    }
  }
}
?>

How to use it to remove the users tab from search? I tried copying and chaning the yourthemename to my theme name and replaced "address book" with "users" but it didn't worked? Did I missed something?

This also works for D6

lurkerX commented 13 January 2012 at 00:52

Thanks for the tip!

Cheers,

You can also try this

giorgio79 commented 3 October 2008 at 04:41

You can also try this :)
http://drupal.org/project/coresearches

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great

phpsharma commented 3 October 2008 at 04:43

solved my issue.
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You can 'hide' the search

ktleow commented 5 October 2008 at 09:51

You can 'hide' the search users tab using only CSS.
display: none;

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Oh really? and wich class or

mortenson commented 10 November 2008 at 20:58

Oh really? and wich class or id would you use?

Even tho you remove user

WoozyDuck commented 2 February 2009 at 17:34

Even tho you remove user tab, the actual page would be accessible by typing "search/user"
So if you really want to remove user search from your website, you need to disable the "user_search" function in your "user" module.
In order to do this, open user.module file and find function user_search($op = 'search', $keys = NULL) and either remove or disable it.
In this case, search will not find user's search hook and will not add any tab nor any search result for users.

After every update you must

jasom commented 8 February 2009 at 11:04

After every update you must do it again. Better is some nice template.php solution:)

Fixing this at the module level

rohnjeynolds commented 6 July 2009 at 19:31

I got results in Drupal 6 using hook_menu_alter(). This removes not only the tab but the Drupal path to user search, which is what I really needed. If this is bad, I'm sure someone will point out why, but I feel that this issue is best solved at the module/menu level rather than the theme level.

function mymodule_menu_alter(&$items) {
    unset($items['search/user/%menu_tail']);
}

Removed the tabs, but not the url to user search

nrackleff commented 27 August 2009 at 21:56

I just built a little helper module using the following code as suggested above.

 function disable_user_search_menu_alter(&$items) {
    unset($items['search/user/%menu_tail']);
    unset($items['search/profile/%menu_tail']);
}

While it did remove the tabs from the search page, it did not remove the ability to search users or profiles. For example, I can still go to '/search/user/deanna' and return results with a list of users named 'deanna'.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Nancy

Maybe you can use something

ressa commented 5 November 2009 at 15:46

Maybe you can use something like

  unset($items['search/user/%user/example']);

From here: http://drupal.org/node/483324

check Tab Tamer module

mortenson commented 27 November 2009 at 13:29

check Tab Tamer module

How to Remove the 'search/user' path

Weka commented 21 April 2010 at 00:16

Using the example code at http://drupal.org/node/483324 I made a custom module to remove the Users tab from search pages. The tabs did disappear; however users are still able to access the search/user path and search for accounts.

Here is the code I used in the custom module. Did I miss something?

<?php
// $Id: custom_mod.module

/**
* @file
* Custom functions and overrides.
*/
/**
* Implementation of hook_menu_alter().
* Remember to clear the menu cache after adding/editing this function.
*/
function custom_mod_menu_alter(&$items) {
  // Removing certain local navigation tabs that are either undesired or need to be custom relocated.

  // Set these tabs to MENU_CALLBACK, so they still register the path, but just don't show the tab:
  $items['node/%node/track']['type'] = MENU_CALLBACK;
  $items['user/%user/track']['type'] = MENU_CALLBACK;
  $items['search/user']['type'] = MENU_CALLBACK;
 
  // Fully unset these tabs and their paths, don't want them at all. This breaks the path as well:
  unset($items['search/user']['type']);
}

Overriding 'access callback'

geneticdrift commented 27 June 2010 at 17:33

In hook_menu_alter override 'access callback'.

This way it is possible to both hide the user search tab and block access to search/user.

For example, to restrict access to search/user only to users with 'administer users' permission.
The user/autocomplete path is handled in the same way.

function mymodule_menu_alter(&$items) {
  if (isset($items['search/user/%menu_tail'])) {
    $menu_item =& $items['search/user/%menu_tail'];
 
    $menu_item['access callback'] = 'user_access';
    $menu_item['access arguments'] = array('administer users');
  }
 
  if (isset($items['user/autocomplete'])) {
    $menu_item =& $items['user/autocomplete'];
 
    $menu_item['access callback'] = 'user_access';
    $menu_item['access arguments'] = array('administer users');
  }
}

Tested in Drupal 6.16 with core search.
(It is also possible to add a specific permission, e.g. 'search users', and use that as the access argument).

function mymodule_menu_alter(&$items) {
  // Add permission to user search.
  $check = array('search/user/%menu_tail', 'user/autocomplete');
  foreach ($check as $path) {
    if (isset($items[$path])) {
      $items[$path]['access callback'] = 'user_access';
      $items[$path]['access arguments'] = array('administer users');
    }
  }
}

In drupal 7 you can disable

vladsocaciu commented 10 October 2011 at 20:12

In drupal 7 you can disable the user search module at admin/config/search/settings

Here the code works exactly to me

hserus commented 25 May 2013 at 12:52

/* Admin can give access to each role */

function mymodule_menu_alter(&$items){
if(isset($items['search/user/%menu_tail'])){
	$menu_item =&$items['search/user/%menu_tail'];
	
	$menu_item['access callback'] = 'user_access';
	$menu_item['access arguments'] = array('Search user');
	}
}

/* Implementation of hook_perm */

function mymodule_perm(){
	return array('Search user');
}