Theme Drupal search results

theme_search_item($item, $type)

http://api.drupal.org/api/function/theme_search_item/5

http://drupal.org/node/175013 => Customize the search results page

A separate issue raised in IRC:

now to disable user searching.
[07:50am] ben-agaric: http://drupal.org/node/85137 - Remove tab from search page
Better general instructions for removing a tab: http://drupal.org/node/68792

original requester: for my needs, my code is much simpler than the more generic solution others have posted.
[08:21am] // we need to remove the 'search users' tab on the search page.
[08:21am] // since that would only leave the 'Content' tab, we can just
[08:21am] // NULL out all tabs for that page and be done with it.
[08:21am] if (arg(0) == 'search') { $vars['tabs'] = NULL; }

Resolution

In template.php, do not paste in opening <?php tag if one has already been opened and the closing ?> tag should be dropped from the end of all Drupal module and theme files per coding standards:

<?php
function phptemplate_search_item($item, $type) {
  $output = ' <dt class="title"><a href="'. check_url($item['link']) .'">'. check_plain($item['title']) .'</a></dt>';
  $info = array();
  if ($item['type']) {
    $info[] = check_plain($item['type']);
  }
  if (user_access('administer content')) {
    if ($item['user']) {
      $info[] = $item['user'];
    }
    if ($item['date']) {
      $info[] = format_date($item['date'], 'small');
    }
    $info[] = l('edit', 'node/' . $item['node']->nid . '/edit');
  }
  if (is_array($item['extra'])) {
    $info = array_merge($info, $item['extra']);
  }
  $output .= ' <dd>'. ($item['snippet'] ? '<p>'. $item['snippet'] .'</p>' : '') .'<p class="search-info">'. implode(' - ', $info) .'</p></dd>';
  return $output;
}
?>