Joomla 1.5 comes with a built-in site search component.  The component allows you to create a “search” module for your website, which consists of an input field and a submit button that site visitors can use to search your site. When you create the search module, you can select an image to use in place of the “Submit” button. Search results are displayed in the site’s default template. What if you’d like to change the look of your search form in different parts of your site, however, and display results in more than one template?  You can do it with a little bit of Mootools and an easy update to the search component’s controller.
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