civicrm_search() API conflicts with Drupal hook_search()

The CiviCRM API function civicrm_search() (found in api/Search.php) conflicts with Drupal's hook_search, and will break Drupal Core's search.module if CiviCRM is initialized.

Symptoms:
– admin/settings/search page in Drupal does not render
– you get PHP errors like these:
[code]

• warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/rtoren/Torenware/Website/beta.torenware.com/docs/modules/civicrm/CRM/Contact/BAO/Query.php on line 332.
• warning: array_keys() [function.array-keys]: The first argument should be an array in /home/rtoren/Torenware/Website/beta.torenware.com/docs/modules/civicrm/CRM/Contact/BAO/Query.php on line 889.
• warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/rtoren/Torenware/Website/beta.torenware.com/docs/modules/civicrm/CRM/Contact/BAO/Query.php on line 889.
  [/code]

[b]Cause:[/b]

When a function of the search module are called (either to execute a search, or to look at the Search module's settings), Search is finding the public API call civicrm_search, and calling it as follows:

civicrm_search($op = 'search', $keys = null)

Since this API is not really an implementation of hook_search, it confuses the hell out of Drupal, since Drupal is not expecting to get a list of CiviCRM search results.

[b]Duplicating The Bug[/b]

Write a trivial drupal module that calls civicrm_initialize(TRUE) in hook_init(), as so:

<?php
// in file "trivial_module.module"....
function trivial_module_init(){
civicrm_initialize(TRUE);
}
?>

Activate the module, and try accessing admin/settings/search, or try running a Drupal search.

[b]Recommended Fix:[/b]

Change the name of civicrm_search() to make the conflict go away. No other way, since hook_search is a fundamental Drupal hook that isn't going away.