Re: Django Search via Form Redirect to URL

On Monday, July 28, 2014 4:42:07 AM UTC-7, Branko Majic wrote:

In your search method, if the request method was POST, you are trying
to retrieve submitted data via key 'search_string'. However, if you
look at your HTML form, there does not seem to be any kind of input
field called 'search_string'.

Try adding name="search_string" parameter to the input element, for
example:

<input type="text" name="search_string" class="form-control" placeholder="Search Article Text">

On a side-note, why are you even using POST method for a search? I
_think_ that GET should be sufficient, and probably more correct thing
to use, unless your searches are actually altering data (which could be
considered a bad practice).

 Thanks for the response. I tried putting a name into the text input field but nothing changes- I am still redirected to /project/search/ and not /project/search/<query>/   . I have also tried to just use the default Django form link template tag with {{ form.search_string }} with the same result, which leads me to think that the issue has to do with maybe the submit button? I'm not sure, though...

I agree that POST is probably the less 'correct' thing to do here, the perfect example for using GET is ironically (in the Django docs themselves) a search bar. That said, I get so confused and frustrated when I have to use forms that I want to have a working prototype before I change it as most of the form tutorials out there use POST because they change models or something.

Seriously thanks for the response!

Conner DiPaolo

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