Search for courses on A plus front pages

[Fatima-Tahir]

Description

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Implement Search for courses on A plus front pages - index and Archive

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Fixes #
#579

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Pull Request Overview

This PR implements a search functionality for courses on A+ front pages, allowing users to search for courses by name on both the index page (showing ongoing courses) and the archive page. The search is performed using a query parameter and filters courses based on case-insensitive name matching.

• Adds search form with input field and clear functionality to course pages
• Implements backend filtering logic to handle course name search queries
• Adds translation support for search-related UI text

Reviewed Changes

Copilot reviewed 6 out of 6 changed files in this pull request and generated 4 comments.

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File	Description
locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/django.po	Adds translation entry for search placeholder text
course/views.py	Implements search query filtering in both IndexView and ArchiveView
course/templates/course/index.html	Integrates search form into the ongoing courses section
course/templates/course/archive.html	Adds search form and no results message to archive page
course/templates/course/_search_courses_form.html	Creates reusable search form template with input field and clear button
course/static/course/course_search.js	Provides JavaScript functionality for clearing search input

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[ihalaij1]

Nice.

I made some fixes and improvements to the UI.