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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