Hello,
I have data entry clerks typing the data, so I cannot have them type
the titles twice. Is there a command where I could strip the tags out
after the keywords are typed but before python goes to the database to
search?
This is the def:
query = request.GET.get('q', '')
if query:
qset = (
Q(pubtitle__icontains=query) |
Q(pubauthors__icontains=query)
)
Thanks!
May
On Feb 6, 11:52 am, Jeff FW <[email protected]> wrote:
> The issue has nothing to do with your templates--it has to do with
> your data, and how you're searching it. In the database, you have
> stored "Survival of <em>Shigella</em>". If you do a regular text
> search (field__contains, or similar) for "Survival of Shigella",
> you'll never get a match, because those strings don't match.
>
> There are a few ways to deal with this, but I think one of the
> cleanest would be to actually store *two* versions of the fields you
> need to search: one with whatever HTML you need, and one with all of
> the tags stripped out. Then, you perform the searches on the stripped
> field(s), but display the "real" field. You can override your model's
> save() method to actually set the stripped field.
>
> -Jeff
>
> On Feb 6, 1:12 pm, May <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > In the database I need to italics species names ex. Survival of
> > <em>Shigella</em>
> > In the search template I use the following:
>
> > <form action="." method="GET">
> > <label for="q">Search for Publications: </label>
> > <input type="text" name="q" value="{{ query|safe}}">
> > <input type="submit" value="Search">
> > </form>
>
> > When a user types in "Survival of Shigella" the search code finds no
> > record, because I think the <em> tags are hindering the search
> > somehow. When I type in Shigella the search finds the record. I
> > have changed the
> > value = {{query|safe}} to all combinations (escape, force_escape,
> > escapejs, iriencode, urlencode) and I still can't get the search to
> > work. Anyone have a suggestion on one; either using different html
> > tags for italics or two; suggest how to get the search to strip the
> > tags?
>
> > Thanks,
>
> > May
>
>
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