How can I move the advanced search into the left sidebar of my homepage?

Question

How can I move the advanced search into the left sidebar of my homepage? No one seems to have been able to give me an answer so far and I would really like to know how this can be done. Thankyou

Answer 1

Use following code in local.xml to move advanced search to left side bar on home page.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<layout version="0.1.0">
    <cms_index_index>
        <reference name="left">
            <block type="catalogsearch/advanced_form" name="catalogsearch_advanced_form" template="catalogsearch/advanced/form.phtml"/>
        </reference>
    </cms_index_index>
</layout>

Hope this helps