If you are using the MySQL database system and MyISAM tables, a very simple Django search interface exists automatically. This is a feature builtin to the Django ORM layer that allows you to perform boolean full-text searches directly from a filter() method call on any QuerySet.
The only caveat to this is that you must build a full text index on the columns you want to search. This is a one-time step, but it's by far the easiest way to get search up and running on your Django application.
The ORM search syntax looks like this:
>>> results = Product.objects.filter(name__search='+cranberry -sauce')
Note the use of + and - characters, which act as operators to explicitly define the search criteria. This is a boolean search, which is very different from what you might expect based on the use of major search engines such as Google or Bing. Boolean search looks for the presence or absence of the terms provided in the simplest way possible. If the term is prefixed...