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    copied!<p>I have to rewrite a form in a CakePHP application. The form searches a list of car sale ads and is pretty complex (~10 fields: model, manufacturer, fuel type etc.). Currently, the form is sent via <code>POST</code> and is working quite well. The problem is I need to create bookmarkable URLs from the search queries and I was wondering what was the best way to accomplish this.</p> <p>I tried passing <code>'type' =&gt; 'get'</code> to the <code>$form-&gt;create()</code> method, but this generates a URL like <code>usercars/search/?model=...&amp;[...]</code> and causes the search to break. </p> <p>I want the URL to be something like <code>&lt;some routing&gt;/&lt;Manufacturer&gt;/&lt;Model&gt;/&lt;Fuel&gt;/&lt;etc&gt;</code>, and also to support parameter omission (i.e. <code>&lt;some routing&gt;/&lt;Manufacturer&gt;</code> to list all the cars from the given manufacturer, even if the other parameters are missing). By <code>POST</code>, currently this works. If I select only one of the params, it gives me the correct results.</p> <p>I wonder if there's any way to determine cake to build the nice url from the form submission and maintain compatibility with the <code>$this-&gt;data</code> way of handling input in the controller. I've gone through the documentation and haven't found any way to do this.</p> <p>I already have two alternatives:</p> <ul> <li>rewriting the controller action to support function parameters instead of working with <code>$this-&gt;data</code>, building a route that targets the search method with the params and doing a redirect in the controller's <code>beforeFilter()</code> method to a URL that corresponds to the route.</li> <li>doing javascript on the search form page to build the URL + the above way of handling it.</li> </ul> <p>What would you recommend?</p>
 

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