cakePHP paginate with post data without sessions, serialization or post to get

Question

I have created a small search and filter form with a POST action in controller/index, which POSTs to itself the conditions and fields to paginate ($this->paginate($

Answer 1

Thanks Deizel for the POST / REDIRECT / GET pattern.

I implemented the GET method of posting data. For pagination used this
$urlparams = $this->params['url'];unset($urlparams['url']); $paginator->options(array('url' => array('?' => http_build_query($urlparams))));

We had multi checkboxes and the naming convention used where :
foreach ($checkboxes as $chbox ) {

// used variable variables to generate the data grid table based on selected fields
${'_field'.$chbox} = (isset($this->params['url']['displayfields'][$chbox])?$this->params['url']['displayfields'][$chbox]:1);

$options = array('label'=>$chbox,'type'=>'checkbox','value'=> ${'_field'.$chbox});
if ( ${'_field'.$chbox} ) $options['checked'] = 'checked';

echo $form->input('Filter.displayfields['.$chbox.']',$options);

In the post method the naming convention for the checkboxs would be Filter.displayfields.checkbox name

This helps in getting an array either in $this->data or $this->params['url']

There should be an persistent pagination plugin/component for cakePHP would make life much more easier and fun to develop with cakePHP.


Thanks all.