CodeIgniter Change POST method URL

Question

I basically have a search box on the index of my site and when a user tries to search anything the function q is called from the controller ( search.php ) and the method used by the form is post so basically i end up with this following URL youdomain.com/search/qi wanted to get something like this youdomain.com/search/your-search-query.html i know this is possible using routes i tried search'ing alot but failed in getting something like this.

I dont wanna change my form method as if i change it to get i will need to also change the config.php URI to query which is kind of ugly .

So is there any solution to this ?

Answer 1

A question: What do you want to happen if a user types in the address youdomain.com/search/your-search-query.html directly? If you want the search results also in this case (which is a right thing to do), you will have to implement GET search anyway.

I shouldn't be even telling you this, because it is in my opinion a bad thing to do here, but you can catch the submit event with javascript, change the url of the request and then send it.