added new listingsearchform to searchform in site-wide urls

bookshare/settings/urls.py

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required
 from haystack.views import SearchView
 # imports from your apps
 from .views import HomepageView, ChartsView
+from trades.forms import ListingSearchForm
 
 
 admin.autodiscover()
@@ -26,7 +27,8 @@ urlpatterns = patterns('',
     url(r'^mod/', include('mod.urls')),
 
     # search
-    url(r'^search/', login_required(SearchView(), login_url='login'), name='search'),
+    url(r'^search/', login_required(SearchView(form_class=ListingSearchForm),
+                                    login_url='login'), name='search'),
 
     # site-wide pages
     # homepage is weird for cacheing... no special url, but different content

bookshare/trades/forms.py

 # core django imports
 from django import forms
+from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
 # third party imports
 from crispy_forms.helper import FormHelper
 from crispy_forms.layout import Button, Submit, Layout, Fieldset, HTML, Field
 from crispy_forms.bootstrap import AppendedPrependedText, FormActions
+from haystack.forms import SearchForm
 # imports from your apps
 from .models import Listing, Bid, Flag, BidFlag, Rating
 
@@ -239,3 +241,10 @@ class RatingForm(forms.ModelForm):
 
     class Meta:
         model = Rating
+
+# overwrites the search form to include bootstrap css classes and autofocus
+class ListingSearchForm(SearchForm):
+    q = forms.CharField(required=False, label=_('Search'),
+                        widget=forms.TextInput(attrs={'type': 'search',  # default
+                                                      'class': 'form-control',  # bootstrap
+                                                      'autofocus': 'autofocus'}))  # field already selected