Customizing joomla search result page layout

Question

The joomla search results appear on the home page. I want it to show up on a new page. According to some online posts I had to modify the mod_search.php to set the item id to a non existing item so i set it to 0, but the problem is that the changes are not being reflected in my search module at all. I also tried putting a hidden field called itemid in the modules/mod_search/tmpl/default/default.php form but even that is not picked, I set the form target equal to _blank and tried to change the action page of the form to say index.php?Itemid=0 instead of index.php but all of this does not seem to reflect on the search module. When i manually change the itemid in the browser location box to 0, the results show up on a different page (thats what i want).

Please suggest what should I do?

Answer 1

Try to change request method of search form:

<form ... method="get">
<input type="hidden" name="itemId" value="0" />

or like this

<form action="...?itemId=0" method="post">

Answer 2

Thanks a lot. I had search this issue in several times. But at last you help me..