Generating clean URLs when using forms

Question

Here is the form:

<form action='<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?>'>
  <p><label>Movie Title:</label><input type='text' name='search'></p>
  <p><input id="submit" type='submit' value='Submit'></p>
</form>

When the form is submitted, currently the URL returns like so:

localhost/movie/index.php?search=ted

I would like for the URL to return like so:

localhost/movie/search/ted

EDIT:

I now have the following code in my .htaccess:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^search=(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^$ /search/%1 [NC,R,L] 
RewriteRule ^search/(.+)$ index.php?search=$1 [NC,L]

This works when you type in the URL /movie/search/ted but when you submit the form it still comes out as /movie/index.php?search=ted

this code is vulnerable to xss. – rook Jul 14 '12 at 19:04 — rook, Jul 14 '12 at 19:04
How so? Would be nice to build on your comment! – CraigColes Jul 14 '12 at 19:09 — CraigColes, Jul 14 '12 at 19:09
`http://localhost/movie/index.php/'>` – rook Jul 14 '12 at 19:10 — rook, Jul 14 '12 at 19:10

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 14 '12 at 18:22

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rewrite rules don't change the url, they just tell your server to interpret url that falls under the rule ^search/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/$ like index.php?search=$1.

If you want to change the link that will be used, you have to change it in your html <form action=''

answered Jul 14 '12 at 18:22

Darvex

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How would I go about doing that, as I have tested a lot of possibilities and still not got the desired result. – CraigColes Jul 14 '12 at 18:26
this answer [here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5464481/clean-urls-for-search-query) should help you with that – Darvex Jul 14 '12 at 18:38
The only URL I can seem to get is: `localhost/movie/search/?search=ted` everything else I have tried either seems to cause a redirect loop or just fails completely. – CraigColes Jul 14 '12 at 18:50

Generating clean URLs when using forms

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