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Matt Choi
Matt Choi

Reputation: 169

Django: redirecting URL from auto-generated "?search_bar="

So I am a new Django programmer and was wondering about how to pass a user-given value from a form into my URL address using Get method.

So I have this search bar, and when the user presses enter, it automatically creates a url address of "?search_bar=user_input"

But my urls.py, which is programmed to take the user_input variable, now fails to recognize my url address and my address is no longer matched to proceed to view.py.

urls.py

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^class/(?P<user_input>\w+)', views.newview),
]

I understand that you cannot simply do the following because you shouldn't match query string with URL Dispatcher

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^class/?search_bar=(?P<user_input>\w+)', views.newview),
]

I should I solve this issue? How can I make the url.py recognize my new address and carry the user_input over to views.py?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 52

Answers (1)

zhiyu cao
zhiyu cao

Reputation: 66

when we talk about url like something/?search_bar=user_input ,something/ is the url part, and the ?search_bar=user_input part belongs to the GET method,so :

urls.py

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^class/$', views.newview),
]

and in your view.py:

def newview(request):
    user_input = request.GET['user_input']
    # or
    # user_input = request.GET.get('user_input', None)

Upvotes: 2

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