...could you please give complete instructions? I can't get what should I do after editing template.php and installing devel module. What does "print the form values with dprint_r($form)" exactly mean? Could you give an example?
Thanks

This takes the form out of the table and renders it more like a normal Drupal form.

This goes in template.php:

<?php
function phptemplate_views_filters($form) {
  if ($form['#view_name'] == 'MYVIEW') {
  
    $view = $form['view']['#value'];
    $form['submit']['#value'] = 'Search';
    
    $rows_theme = '';
    
    foreach ($view->exposed_filter as $count => $expose) {
      
      $rows_theme .= '<div class="filter ' . $form["filter$count"]['#name'] . '">';
      $rows_theme .= '<label for="' . $form["filter$count"]['#id'] . '">'. $expose['label'] .'</label>';
      $rows_theme .= drupal_render($form["op$count"]) . drupal_render($form["filter$count"]);
      $rows_theme .= '</div>';
    }
      $rows_theme .= '<div>'. drupal_render($form['submit']) .'</div>';

    
    return drupal_render($form['q']) . $rows_theme . drupal_render($form);
  }
  else {
    return theme_views_filters($form);
  }
}
?>

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If anyones trying to theme their exposed filters in the old Drupal 4.7, I've adapted Rowanw's code as per below:

function phptemplate_views_filters($form) {

  if ($form['view']['#value']->name == 'MYVIEW') {

    $view = $form['view']['#value'];
    $form['submit']['#value'] = 'Search';
   
    $rows_theme = '';
   
    foreach ($view->exposed_filter as $count => $expose) {
     
      $rows_theme .= '<div class="filter ' . $form["filter$count"]['#name'] . '">';
      $rows_theme .= '<label for="' . $form["filter$count"]['#id'] . '">'. $expose['label'] .'</label>';
      $rows_theme .= form_render($form["op$count"]) . form_render($form["filter$count"]);
      $rows_theme .= '</div>';
    }
      $rows_theme .= '<div>'. form_render($form['submit']) .'</div>';

   
    return form_render($form['q']) . $rows_theme . form_render($form);
  }
  else {
    return theme_views_filters($form);
  }
}

Cheers.

Hi, I tried this in Drupal 6, but there is no key named "#view_name." There's just "#id." I tried using that in template.php but nothing happens at all. Any ideas?

My code looks like this:

function phptemplate_views_filters($form) {
  if ($form['#id'] == 'views-exposed-form-featured-sales-page-1') {
    $form['field_bathrooms_value']['#size']=10;
    $form['field_bedrooms_value']['#size']=10;
    $form['field_neighborhood_value']['#size']=10;
    $form['field_price_value']['#size']=10;
    $form['submit']['#value']='Filter';
  }
  return theme_views_filters ($form);
} 

If your field name looks like filter1[city] (put anything in place of "city"), you'll need to call it like this:
$form['filter0']['city']['#size']= 30;

dprint_r($form) can be put at the end of the same function in template.php like this:

function phptemplate_views_filters($form) {
dprint_r($form);
return theme_views_filters ($form);
}
putting it into the page.tal.php in any other way didn't work for me.

I am trying to change the number of items visible in a multiselect box. It is longer than the ones next to it, and I want to limit it to 5 items and have it scroll. This is set by
... I cannot, for the life of me figure out how to target that stupid select box. I got the submit button text changed fine:

/**
* Change submit button to search in exposed filters.
*/

function mbpv_custom_functions_preprocess_views_exposed_form(&$vars, $hook) {
  // only alter the search view exposed filter form
  if ($vars['form']['#id'] == 'views-exposed-form-directory-page-2') {
 
       
    // Change the text on the submit button to Search
    $vars['form']['submit']['#value'] = t('Search');
    unset($vars['form']['submit']['#printed']);
    $vars['button'] = drupal_render($vars['form']['submit']);
  }

}

And while we're at it, I have this running in my mbpv_custom_functions.module, how do I get dprint_r() working to print out all the $form array stuff ... I have devel installed and permissions set, but I cannot get the dprint_r to work.

Any help is appreciated.

Can somebody tell me why this does not work:

function phptemplate_preprocess_views_exposed_form(&$vars) {

  if ($vars['form']['#id'] == 'views-exposed-form-article-list-panel-pane-15') {
    $vars['form']['title']['#size'] = 90;
    $vars['form']['tid']['#size'] = 5;
    $vars['form']['tid_1']['#size'] = 5;
    $vars['form']['tid_2']['#size'] = 5;
    $vars['form']['type_1']['#size'] = 5;
  }
}

The function is called, the IF statement is true, the variable output (devel dpm) shows that the values has been changed and cache cleared, but it has no affect on the form.

I used the method outlined here http://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/21832/increasing-width-of-view...

So in my THEME.css I just placed one line:
#block-views-exp-VIEW_NAME-page input{width: 80px;}
to decrease the width of the field.

Talking about D7, exposed filters is a regular form, so you can theme, preprocess and alter it like other forms
$form_id = 'views_exposed_form', just in case