Question

I have a web site on Django.
I want to create a search input on every page.
In some “base.html” I write new for this search input.

In views.py I add something like:

def main(request):
    if request.method == 'POST':
        search_string = request.POST['search_string']
        result = search(search_string)
        return direct_to_template(request, 'found_page.html', {'result': result})`

But I want it on EVERY page.

So, I create new function “search_function(request)” and add it to EVERY def in views.py.
Or I can create a decorator and write it before EVERY def in views.py.

I don’t want to do it EVERY time I add new def.
But I don’t know how.
Need your help

Answer 1

So this is what I think you want to do: display a search input form on every page (whichever applicable), and use only one views to handle the search.

1. create one view that handles search
2. create a html page that has the <form> element of the search whose action goes to your views done in the previous step
3. include or extend it in your base.html

What I don’t get is, do you need the search happen to be the search on the local page? (for example, search within this forum)

To get the query you can just supply the query by request.GET['q'] or request.POST['q'] or similar.

def search(request):
  if 'q' in request.GET and request.GET['q']:
     // do something

Unless your search (query) changes the state of the query result in the database, you don’t want to use POST. Use GET instead.