GET parameters in the URL with CodeIgniter

When I first started working with CodeIgniter, not using GET really threw me off as well. But then I realized that you can simulate GET parameters by manipulating the URI using the built-in URI Class. It's fantastic and it makes your URLs look better.

Or if you really need GETs working you can put this into your controller:

parse_str($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'], $_GET); 

Which will put the variables back into the GET array.

"don't you get annoyed by the re-send data requests if ever you press back after a form submission"

you can get around this by doing a redirect from the page that processes your form submission to the success page. the last "action" was the loading of the success page, not the form submission, which means if users do an F5 it will just reload that page and not submit the form again.

allesklar: That is slightly misleading, as scripts and bots can POST data nearly as easily as sending a normal request. It's not a secret, it's part of HTTP.

A little bit out of topic, but I was looking for a get function in CodeIgniter just to pass some variables between controllers and come across Flashdata.
see : http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/sessions.html
Flashdata allows you to create a quick session data that will only be available for the next server request, and are then automatically cleared.

GET parameters are cached by the web browser, POST is not. So with a POST you don't have to worry about caching, so that is why it is usually prefered.

Even easier:

curl -X POST -d "param=value&param2=value" http://example.com/form.cgi

that plugin's pretty cool though.

Do this below. Worked for me. I took values from a select box and another textbox. Then on button click I took the entire data in Javascript function and redirected using javascript.

//Search Form
$(document).ready (function($){
    $("#searchbtn").click(function showAlert(e){
        e.preventDefault();
        var cat = $('#category').val();
        var srch = $('#srch').val();

        if(srch==""){
            alert("Search is empty :(");
        }
        else{
            var url = baseurl+'categories/search/'+cat+'/'+srch;            
            window.location.href=url;
        }
    });
});

The above code worked for me.