How to display search results in html with django #21484

micaelagimenez · 2020-08-12T17:10:28Z

micaelagimenez
Aug 12, 2020

Hello, I am writing a search app that returns a movie from ghibli studio once you search for the title. The app it’s connected to the ghibli API and it works because whenever I type the title in the search bar, I get the result back but Only in my terminal. I need to display the results in the html but what I’ve tried so far has not worked.
I’ve been told to do this in my html file:

{% if movie %}
{% for movie in movies %}
<ul>
<li>Title: {{ movie_data.title }}</li>
<li>Release date: {{ movie_data.release_date }}</li>
<li>Director: {{ movie_data.director }}</li>
<li>Description: {{movie_data.description}}</li>
</ul>
{% endfor %}
{% endif %}

This doesn’t work. This is my view:

from django.shortcuts import render, HttpResponse
from core.models import Movie
from django.views.generic import ListView
import requests
def index(request):

movies = []
if request.method == 'POST':
    
    film_url = 'https://ghibliapi.herokuapp.com/films/'
    
    search_params = {
        'films' : 'title',
        'films' : 'description',
        'films' : 'director',
        'films' : 'release_date',
        'q' : request.POST['search']
        
        }

    
    r = requests.get(film_url, params=search_params)
    results = r.json()
    print(results)

    for result in results:
         movie_data = {
            'Title' : result['title'],
            'Release_date': result['release_date'],
            'Director' : result['director'],
            'Producer' : result['producer'],
            'Description' : result['description']
        }

    movies.append(movie_data)  
    print(movie_data) 
 

context = {
'movies' : movies
}
    
return render(request,'core/index.html', context)

This is my html:

{% load static %}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Ghibli Studio | Movies</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="{% static 'core/main.css' %}">
</head>
    <body>
      <div class=" header">
  &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;div class="wrap"&gt;
      &lt;form action='/' method="POST"&gt;
          {% csrf_token %}
          &lt;div class="search"&gt;


              &lt;input type="text" name="search" class="searchTerm" placeholder="Type movie name" &gt;
              &lt;link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css"&gt;
              &lt;button type="submit" class="searchButton"&gt;

                  &lt;i class="fa fa-search" style="font-size:24px"&gt;&lt;/i&gt;
              &lt;/button&gt;

          &lt;/div&gt;


      &lt;/form&gt;
      {% if movie %}
       {% for movie in movies %}
      &lt;ul&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;{{ movie }}&lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;/ul&gt;
       {% endfor %}
    
      {% endif %}


  &lt;/div&gt;

</body>

</html>

Any help would be very much appreciated!

Answered by airtower-luna

Aug 12, 2020

That should work in principle, try capitalizing the same way as in the movie_data dict (e.g. {{ movie.Title }}).

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airtower-luna · 2020-08-12T17:20:39Z

airtower-luna
Aug 12, 2020

What’s the

micaelagimenez:

{% if movie %}

block for? Your context doesn’t seem to contain a movie variable, so that might already be the reason that the enclosed for block isn’t rendering. It seems like

{% if movies %}

would make more sense. 😉

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micaelagimenez · 2020-08-12T17:23:43Z

micaelagimenez
Aug 12, 2020
Author

Whoa, it was that easy! It worked! Thank you so much 😄

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micaelagimenez · 2020-08-12T18:00:08Z

micaelagimenez
Aug 12, 2020
Author

Would you happen to know how I can display the result in the same way it appears in my movie_data dictionary?
I’m trying this but it displays nothing if I do this, whereas it does display the whole block if I just do the {{movie}} thing, but it’s hard to understand since everything is together:

{% if movie %}
 {% for movie in movies %}
    <ul>
        <li>Director: {{ movie.director }}</li>
        <li>Title: {{movie.title}}</li>
        <li>Year: {{movie.release_date}}</li>
        <li>Description: {{movie.description}}</li>
    </ul>
      {% endfor %}
    {% endif %}

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airtower-luna · 2020-08-12T18:22:10Z

airtower-luna
Aug 12, 2020

That should work in principle, try capitalizing the same way as in the movie_data dict (e.g. {{ movie.Title }}).

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micaelagimenez · 2020-08-12T18:25:35Z

micaelagimenez
Aug 12, 2020
Author

Thank you so much again! That solved it! 😄

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