title: How to hide/remove search field in Magento
body: <p>The store is running in: Magento ver. 1.4.1.1</p>
  
  <p>Because the search is not working, we're wanting to hide the search bar until I have time to look into the problem. I've searched everywhere. I keep seeing people editing catalogsearch.xml but I don't even know where to find that.</p>
  
  <p>To me it looks like the search field is contained in a content block (under or above the left navvy) which also has contact information. But I don't even know where that content block is. </p>
  
  <p>==== EDIT ====
  (Since I can't answer my OWN post for another 5 hours, here's the answer below:)</p>
  
  <p>Found it:</p>
  
  <p>Location: app > design > frontend > default > calshrm > template > catalogsearch > form.mini.phtml
  Just removed the code and stored the removed section as a .txt file in the same directory. </p>
  
  <p>Code removed:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;form id="search_mini_form" action="&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;helper('catalogsearch')-&gt;getResultUrl() ?&gt;" method="get"&gt;
          &lt;div class="dfsboxleft"&gt;
              &lt;label for="search"&gt;&lt;!--?php echo $this-&gt;__('Search:') ?--&gt;&lt;/label&gt;
              &lt;button type="submit" title="&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;__('Search') ?&gt;" class="dfsbutton"&gt;
                  &lt;span&gt;
                      &lt;span&gt;&lt;!--?php echo $this-&gt;__('Search') ?--&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
                  &lt;/span&gt;
              &lt;/button&gt;
          &lt;/div&gt;
  
          &lt;div class="dfsbox"&gt;
              &lt;input id="search" type="text" name="&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;helper('catalogsearch')-&gt;getQueryParamName() ?&gt;"
                              value="&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;helper('catalogsearch')-&gt;getEscapedQueryText() ?&gt;" class="dfsinput" /&gt;
              &lt;div id="search_autocomplete" class="search-autocomplete"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
                  &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
              //&lt;![CDATA[
                      var searchForm = new Varien.searchForm('search_mini_form', 'search', '&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;__('Product Search') ?&gt;');
                      searchForm.initAutocomplete('&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;helper('catalogsearch')-&gt;getSuggestUrl() ?&gt;', 'search_autocomplete');
              //]]&gt;
              &lt;/script&gt;
          &lt;/div&gt;
      &lt;/form&gt; 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'm assuming form.mini is something different than what is normal, in which case you may have to look for the file mentioned above, which I'm not sure where that one is. </p>