Magento

I’m trying to add a simple search to CMS! I have successfully done with for the lazzymonks blog.

It is giving me a blank page so I did a simple test. I added
<block type="cms/page" name="test" as="test" template="cms/test.phtml" />

to layout/catalogsearch.xml

and then i created cms/test.phtml and just put ‘hello world’.

in catalog/result.phtml i put
echo $this->getChildHtml(’test’) ;

then when i goto the search results page i get a blank page and no error.

Please advise!

try put your <block type="cms/page" name="test" as="test" template="cms/test.phtml" /> in <reference name="content"> </reference>

In fact, Magento search is not perfect. Very often a user doesn’t find what he was looking for and leaves the store. Good decision is to integrate the Sphinx search engine. It greatly improves the quality and relevance of search results. Look at http://mirasvit.com/magento-extensions/magento-advanced-search-for-shared-hosting.html