Dear Simon,
Thanks for your quick reply and help! It works now.
Cravan
On 20/6/19, 6:12 PM, "Simon King" <sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com on behalf of
si...@simonking.org.uk> wrote:
I think you're using postgresql, so you can use ILIKE instead of LIKE
to do a case-insensitive search.
Simon
On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 10:43 AM Cravan <cravan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks Simon, this works for most cases. However, it still does not work
in some cases for example if I want Avengers:Endgame and Avengers: Infinity War
to come out if I type avengers(lower_cased). How should I rectify this?
> Cheers,
> Cravan
>
> On 20/6/19, 5:04 PM, "Simon King" <sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com on behalf
of si...@simonking.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Are you saying that you want to surround the name that the user tried
> to search for with wildcards? If so, how about this:
>
> name = request.args.get("movie.title")
> name_pattern = "%" + name + "%"
> search_movie_statement = sqlalchemy.text('SELECT * FROM movies
> WHERE title LIKE :movie_title')
> movie_specific = engine.execute(search_movie_statement,
> movie_title=name_pattern).fetchall()
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Simon
>
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 8:21 AM Cravan <cravan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I recently tried to create a search function which
is supposed to display all possible results in a table even if the title is
incomplete. However, I am using python variables and hence have to use colon
notation to sub it into the sql command, however I also learnt about wildcards.
How then do I use both of them without resulting in a conflict or error? My
code goes something like this:
> >
> >
> >
> > ````
> >
> > @app.route("/movie_results") #im using flask
> >
> > def movie_results():
> >
> > name = request.args.get("movie.title")
> >
> > search_movie_statement = sqlalchemy.text('SELECT * FROM movies
WHERE title LIKE :movie_title')
> >
> > movie_specific = engine.execute(search_movie_statement,
movie_title=name).fetchall()
> >
> > if movie_specific is not None:
> >
> > print(name)
> >
> > return render_template("movie_specific.html",
movie_specific=movie_specific, name=name)
> >
> > if movie_specific is None:
> >
> > return render_template("error2.html", message="No such
movie.")
> >
> > ````
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Cravan
> >
> >
> >
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