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Derrick jamal
Derrick jamal

Reputation: 47

How to implement a search function in django

I am a kind of new to Django. And I am setting up a project that can display quotes based on a specific author or writer. I am having trouble creating the search function to display quotes based on the author's name. How do I create a search view function and display it on the template.

For example, the user searches the author name from author_name in class Author, then it displays a list of quotes by the author

Below is a sample of my models.py file

class Author(models.Model):

author_name = models.CharField(max_length=50)
id = models.AutoField(primary_key=True)
description = models.TextField(max_length=500)
portrait = models.ImageField()

def __str__(self):
    return self.author_name

class Quote(models.Model):

author = models.ForeignKey(Author, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
quote = models.TextField(max_length=500)

def __str__(self):
    return self.quote

Upvotes: 1

Views: 131

Answers (1)

willeM_ Van Onsem
willeM_ Van Onsem

Reputation: 477533

For a given author_name, you can look up the Quotes of that author with:

Quote.objects.filter(author__author_name=author_name)

You might want to use the __icontains lookup [Django-doc], since this will match Alexander Pope, given you search for pope, or alex:

Quote.objects.filter(author__author_name__icontains=author_name)

Upvotes: 1

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