Thanks, when I get back to my production comp, ill give this a try.
Did know about this queryset thing. Thanks again.
Just a quick question, the **filters thing u placed, i would put
something like first_name last_name or something right?
On Jun 30, 11:25 pm, Doug Ballance <dball...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If you just want a simple user search (which seems to be what you are
> asking for), it really depends on your models - but a basic approach I
> usually use is to define a django form to use for the search, and
> instead of defining a save method, make a method that returns a
> queryset. As an off the top of my head example for a django auth user
> (untested, I might have screwed something up):
>
> class UserSearchForm(forms.Form):
> first_name__istartswith=forms.CharField(label="First name",
> required=False)
> last_name__istartswith=forms.CharField(label="Last name",
> required=False)
>
> def queryset(self):
> from django.contrib.auth.models import User
> filters={}
> for k,v in self.cleaned_data.items():
> val=v.strip()
> if val: filters[k]=val
> return User.objects.filter(**filters)
>
> Then use it in your view like any other form:
>
> def user_search(request):
> usf=UserSearchForm(request.GET or
> request.POST,prefix='usersearch')
> users=usf.queryset()
> return render_to_response('sometemplate.html',{'users':users})
>
> Now if you really do want to do text indexing and have full text
> search capabilities then you should look at the other suggestions.
> For many things those are either overkill or too generic.
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