move search field

Hello i need to move search field to another side of the webpage,

i did the following:

copy

<?php echo $search; ?>

from

catalog\view\theme\default\template\common

header.tpl

to

layout.tpl

inside new div

but im getting thie error message:

Notice: Undefined variable: search in /hermes/web04/b2168/as.sgvbicycles/public_html/catalog/view/theme/default/template/common/layout.tpl on line 29

i dont understand how can i define this, please somebody can help me ? big thanks.

Would you rather it be a sidebox? There is a contrib for that in the contrib section for modules. That would be the easiest approach if you are moving it out of the header.

i have solved this:

i opened

catalog\controller\common

layout.php

and
find

$this->children = array(
'common/header',
'common/footer',
);

i did add

'common/language',
'common/search'


and the result is this:

$this->children = array(
'common/header',
'common/footer',
'common/language',
'common/search'
);

after that i add <?php echo $search; ?>
to layout.tpl file and this works fine, thanks