Simple Search: Passing Form Variable to URI Using CodeIgniter

Question

I have a search form on each of my pages. If I use form helper, it defaults to $_POST. I\'d like the search term to show up in the URI:

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Answer 1

I don't know much about CodeIgniter, but it's PHP, so shouldn't $_GET still be available to you? You could format your URL the same way Google does: mysite.com/search?q=KEYWORD and pull the data out with $_GET['q'].

Besides, a search form seems like a bad place to use POST; GET is bookmarkable and doesn't imply that something is changing server-side.