Add search for movie/persons to navbar

[leepeuker]

Currently it is not possible to directly search for a movie or a person from the navbar. This means you cannot reach the search from sites like the dashboard not at all, only the "Log play" button. Additionally there is no search yet which combines searching for movie/persons.

Todos:

• add way to open search modal to navbar
• build a search modal (integrate with current log play modal I guess?)
  • add option to search for movie or for a person

[JVT038]

Would this be done with a SQL query?
If so, wouldn't you need some complex query where you select with LIKE keyword and try to make some kind of join to search in multiple tables simultaneously?
I feel like this might result into slow searching, because there are easily hundreds or thousands of actors, and hundreds of movies in a database, and having to query multiple tables can impact performance negatively.
Maybe look into some specialized search engine like typesense or algolia for this stuff.

[leepeuker]

If so, wouldn't you need some complex query where you select with LIKE keyword and try to make some kind of join to search in multiple tables simultaneously?

Currently I am thinking about having just specific searches. So you cannot search for everything at once, you have to define what to search in (e.g. movies or persons or companies). That should make the search easier for us to implement and I do not really think that a global search is something people really need 🤔 For this sql performance should be more than enough

[leepeuker]

To be honest atm my main issue is that I still have no idea have the UI should look like

[JVT038]

I'm currently just playing around with this function. Here's a small thingy I just made:

Searching for things would be on a separate page, instead of a modal, because I prefer to have a page dedicated to search.
The page can be accessed by clicking on the magnifying glass in the top-right corner, between the 'add movie' and the three dots button.

The search page itself has a select option, where the user can choose to either search for movies or for people and the user can run the query by clicking on the blue button on the right side.

[leepeuker]

We will need more filters, like by year, rating, genre or language and sort options. Checkout the All movies site, there are some examples what we have to integrate into the global search. These options have to change to match the search type (person or movie) I think

I mean this page: