[Answered ]-Django simple approach to multi-field search

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If you’re doing anything more than extremely basic searching, you want a proper full-text database search engine.

Something like django-sphinx might be the answer.
http://github.com/dcramer/django-sphinx

If you’re really only doing it to mess with django, one extremely simple solution is to pull all the results and use a regex to figure out your matches. Obviously this is a terrible solution.

A better solution would be to create a filter adding your search terms onto a query programmatically.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/querysets/#filter

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/querysets/#contains

👤Paul McMillan

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