CakePHP Form Submission with Results in Url

Question

How do I submit a form using the form helper and have the reply of that submission have a url with what was searched for?

I submit this code:

 <?php echo $form->create('Search', array('action' => 'results', 'type' => 'post')); ?>
    <?php

            $options = array
            (
                'size' => 45,
                'id' => 'search',
                'tabindex' => 1,
                'maxlength' => 250
            );

            echo $form->text('Search.query', $options);
        ?>

So when I submit the form with the words "Hello World", I want the resulting url to be:

 [domain]/searches/results/Hello+World

deceze · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-06 01:56:20Z

2

You will have to do a redirect to get this exact URL. Submitting a form using GET would result in /searches/results?SearchQuery=Hello+World. For my taste that would be perfectly adequate, but if you want a pretty URL, do this in your controller:

class SearchesController extends AppController {
    public function results($query = null) {
        if (!$query && $this->data) {
            $this->redirect(array('action' => 'searches', $this->data['Search']['query']));
        }

        // search
     }
}

Note that this requires one extra roundtrip to the server.

edited Jun 6, 2011 at 1:56

answered Jun 5, 2011 at 4:46

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4 Comments

cdub Over a year ago

i'm having trouble when i search for words that have a space...seems weird

deceze Over a year ago

What trouble in particular? Examples?

cdub Over a year ago

nevermind, having some caching issues and debug code messing things up

cdub Over a year ago

also added another if clause that stated if $query and $this->data exists, then they also need to be equal, or else redirect

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