Fix for search input field on search results page

[jeroenvermeulen]

By default the the search input box is inside the header.
It needs to contain the current search string after searching, on the search results page.
Before this fix, the header ESI block was cached, so this did not work. The search string was wrong or not showing.

[eth8505]

This will however slow down the search results page, which can be rather slow anyway. Especially if the default magento search is used.
What we have alternatively done, is implement a little javascript that auto-fills fields with some parameters. I could for example do the following:

<input type="text" data-autofill="p:q" />

which would inject the querystring parameter "q" into the input field with the header still cached.

[jeroenvermeulen]

What you say is true, and for advanced users is a better solution.
However, when my fix is merged, the default install works better than before.
Adding such a javascript fix to Turpentine would complicate things too much.
Users can add it themselves, and remove the XML my fix adds.

If your search is slow, you may want to try my free Solr search extension. Also on GitHub.

[eth8505]

That is true @jeroenvermeulen :)
And about the search: It's not so much about my search being slow, but Magento search being rather slow in general, at least when using the default search. For most of our customers having problems with search performance, we have already implemented different solutions of course.