How Do I Clear $_GET Variables with “href”?

Question

I have an a tag on my search results page ( www.mysite.com/?search=test ). I would like to simply refresh the page and remove all the $_GET variables from the URL by clicking the <a> link. Right now I am achieving this with a simple <a href="?"> but that still leaves the URL with a question mark: www.mysite.com/? .

Is it possible to have an <a> tag simply clear these variables completely? Or am I stuck with the question mark.

Answer 1

You can try something like this:

<a href="{$_SERVER['REQUEST_SCHEME']}://{$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']}{$_SERVER['REDIRECT_URL']}">Reset search</a>

Answer 2

I figured out a solution. It really should have been pretty obvious but for some reason I didn't think of it.

Simply set the href to the root directory and rebuild back to the page:

<a href="/blog/">Back</a>