Django Project Blueprints

Adding search

If you look at our home page right now, it should be a list of 50 random products from our database. You can open it at http://127.0.0.1:8000 and it should look similar to this:

What we'd like to do is add a basic search form to this page. The form will just be one field that accepts a search term and button to perform the search. The search term will perform a search on the name field of our products list.

Let's create a simple Django form and add it to our page. Create a new main/forms.py file and add the following code:

from django import forms


class SearchForm(forms.Form):
    name = forms.CharField(required=False)

Next, we need to display ...