[TYPO3-dev] Creating a realurled request with a GET form

[Francois Suter]

Hi,

> When I have a GET-Form of course it appends all parameters with ? and &.
> But I would need my form to send a realurled request because I need the
> result being cached and requests containing "?" are not cached by
> nc_staticfilecache.
>
> So I guess this has to be done with Javascript somehow. Any best
> practices, extensions, hints, concerns?

As mentioned by Steffen, you can't do this with just JavaScript as the 
cHash has to be saved in RealURL table. This is what we do when we have 
a simple selector: rather than making it a drop-down to select a value 
and then submitting the form, we make it like a quick jump menu. All 
URLs are calculated (server-side, when the form is rendered) and used as 
values for the drop-down. Then a JavaScript just changes the location to 
the selected URL.

Of course this method won't work if you have some free input fields. It 
can work only with selectors having a predefined set of values. And if 
you have multiple selectors, you will have to build a set of URLs 
corresponding to all combinations and select the right one using JS.

HTH

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Francois Suter
Cobweb Development Sarl - http://www.cobweb.ch