How to Beautify Your Search Panel in Website Created With PHPMaker 8.0.3

PHPMaker generates your pages that contain search panel using a standard style (not so eye-catching and not so beauty, I think). In addition, that search panel status will always using one condition based on the setting we chose when we generate the script files. If we want to use the default status whether collapsed or expanded, then we have to re-generate the related script files.

So this following modification will change the look of your search panel, so that it will look more eye-catching and more beauty by adding the colored background and the outlines around its box or section. Also, this following modification will give you the flexibility to decide; whether to use collapsed or expanded as the default status. You can simply adjusting the related constant from the configuration (ewcfg*.php) file. In other words, you don’t have to re-generate your related script files that contain the search panel each time you want to switch from collapsed to expanded (and vice versa) for that search panel.

All we have to do is customizing PHPMaker template files. In other words, we will not modify the generated script files at all.

Please click on the following image to watch the demo:

Expanding and Collapsing Search Panel using jQuery

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