Question

I have a form, created with Zend_Form, with method = GET used for searching records with elements as below:

[form]
user name [input type=”text” name=”uname”]
[input type=”submit” value=”Search” name=”search”]
[/form]

After form is submitted all the GET parameters along with submit button value are appearing in the url.

http://mysite.com/users/search?uname=abc&search=Search

How to avoid submit button value appearing in the url? is custom routing the solution ?

Answer 1

In the controller that represents the form’s action, redirect to another (or the same controller) only including the relevant params.

Pseudocode:

$params = $this->getRequest()->getParams();
if isset($params['search'])
  unset($params['search']);
  return $this->_helper->Redirector->setGotoSimple('thisAction', null, null, $params);

handle form here

This is basically the same idea as Post/Redirect/Get except that you want to modify the request (by unsetting a parameter) in between the different stages, instead of doing something persistent (the images on that Wiki-page shows inserting data into a database).

If I were you, I would leave it in. IMO it’s not worth an extra request to the webserver.