Hi,
I felt like I knew it was simple question haha, thanks so much for
answering though! I will try all of these right away!
Thank you again!
On Saturday, October 12, 2019 at 12:15:00 AM UTC-4, WD Wang wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> I think It's not a django problem, it's a classic web developing problem.
>
> Http is stateless, if you want to 'save' something, you need to use
> 1. URL param like the 'q=soccer'.
> 2. Use cookie/session.
>
> I think your problem can be solved by one of the methods below:
> 1. Use ajax to do the search, and use javascript to update the search
> result, so the page will not be reload when doing search.
> 2. Put the search box and category check-boxes in one form, when the user
> submit to search, the browser will also submit the categories check boxes,
> so you know what the user selected, you can select them again in the
> response html.
> 3. Use javascript to remember what category the user selected, and render
> the selection when the page reloaded.
>
> On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 5:07 AM Robert Levasseur > wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm very new to Django so this might be a silly question, but I'm having
>> an issue with the filter functionality on my site's search page. I am using
>> the django-haystack module to interface with the Whoosh search engine, and
>> it functions by reloading the page while sending the query as a GET
>> parameter. This means when someone runs the search, say for soccer, on the
>> site it loads the page with a url /search/?q=soccer
>> On the same page I have a from with a bunch of category check-boxes that
>> I would like to use to filter the search results. I run into the problem
>> however that if I submit the form and reload the page it does not remember
>> the search text, and If I run the search and reload the page it does not
>> remember which categories were selected.
>>
>> Is there a way in Django for me to pull both of these pieces of
>> information and mess around with them in views.py, while maintaining the
>> state of the category form and search box? Sorry if this is a strange
>> question, and thanks for any help!
>>
>> Regards,
>> R. Eli
>>
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