You probably want to use "Complex lookups with Q objects" (http://
www.djangoproject.com/documentation/db-api/)
here is how i use it on a site:
from django.db.models import Q
query = Q()
for term in request.GET['area'].split(' '):
q = Q(city__icontains = term) \
|Q(postcodeFirstPart__iexact = term) \
|Q(street1__icontains = term) \
|Q(street2__icontains = term) \
|Q(suburb__icontains = term) \
|Q(referenceID0__icontains = term) \
|Q(referenceID1__icontains = term)
query = query & q
(this is only one part of the bigger search query for a property
system)
"term" is the search term from you search box (called "area" here).
You can chain them up in OR & AND ..
finally you just call
object_list = Property.objects.all().filter(query, isLive=True)
with your query.
this should get you started ..
On Nov 4, 2:01 am, Greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
> I've created a django website where I sell many different products,
> that differ by color, manufacturer, size, price, shape, etc... I'm
> wondering what the best way to implement a search box would be. I'd
> want this search box to return only the products that relate to what
> the user searches for.
>
> I'd imagine I'll have to break the search terms up into a list. So if
> the user searches for Red Aadi Sphinx. Then I'd put those words into
> a list ['Red', 'Aadi', 'Sphinx']. And then take each one of the words
> and search every class that I have in my models.py file and if I get
> any matches then I'd append that to my search list.
>
> Does anybody have any suggestions on how best to do this?
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