Display your Drupal Search Form

The first step you would want to consider in displaying your Drupal Search Form is to use install the search module. A fresh installation of Drupal does not include yet the search form in the installed and enable modules. Then, apply the desired settings that you want for your search form and add necessary permissions.

In your page-tpl.php, add this code where you want to place the search form.

print drupal_get_form('search_form');