Question

I have a site where each page is actually a parameter of the index.php page.

So the search page is simply: www.mysite.com/?p=search

I created a GET form whose action is the page above (http://www.mysite.com/?p=search). However, when I submit the form, it is actually submitting the GET parameters to www.mysite.com/index.php instead of www.mysite.com/?p=search.

How do I get the form to actually submit to www.mysite.com/?p=search so that I end up with something like:

www.mysite.com/?p=search&param1=blah1&param2=blah2@&param3=blah3

instead of:

www.mysite.com/index.php?param1=blah1&param2=blah2@&param3=blah3

?

Answer 1

You can’t use a form to make a GET request to a URI with a query string in the action without destroying the existing query string. Use a hidden input instead.

Add <input type="hidden" name="p" value="search"> to your form and set action="/"