I have an application which uses GET forms for the purpose of providing links which one person can send to another. For example:

I am in the process of migrating to ZF and have a working MVC application. If i submit the above form I end up with something similar to:

Ideally I would end up at

OR Is there a particular method I have missed for this, or should I be submitting my forms to some kind of /bounceController which redirects to the neat URL ?

I wonder if a Controller Plugin can be written, to detect a GET request with variables, and perform the rewriting.

Your third item, "Ideally I would end up at" is exactly how the ZF currently works.

Indeed, the third url is what Zend Framework would process.

What I was trying to say is that if I submit a form, to /projects/list the URL will be

I'm trying to find the best way to handle GET forms to finish at a clean URL.

/projects/list/team/Design/client/SomeClientName/status/All

/projects/list/?team=Design&client=SomeClientName&status=All

I don't understand your reply Elemental; you didn't actually say anything.

Has anyone dealt with this issue before? Is the only way to issue redirects to attractive URLs?

can be entered in the url as

Which will be routed to the default module, projectsController, listAction with the following params:

'team' => 'Design'
'client' => 'SomeClientName'
'status' => 'All'

You would access the variables in the controller using parent::_getParam(variableName);
Thought I should add that incase it wasn't clear.

More commonly you see this.
The params are part of the request object. I would think that parent:: would point to the Zend_Controller_Action class that your controller is extending vs. the request object.

Perhaps I haven't explained the problem very well - if thats the case, my apologies.

When I submit a form, (and when anyone on any website in the universe submits a form), via the GET method, they are redirected to

action?query_string

Where action is the form action, and the query string is a product of the form fields.

A ZF MVC application has pretty URLs. The URLs I generate to link from page to page are indeed 'pretty' URLs of the MVC format.

The address of a page you're taken to after submitting a form ISNT.

I guess I don't follow, I write my urls as described above, whether they are for a GET form action, POST form action, anchor link, or whatever.

/module/controller/action/var1/val1/var2/val2/

the only exception for me is when I create custom routes.

I haven't had a ? & or = in a url since I moved to rewrite capable frameworks.

Generally I disable to default submit action of a form anyway and use AJAX to handle the form submit actions, but even in that case my urls all get written out the same way.

I have on occasion put my variables in the request headers so they aren't displayed in the url at all, but I only do that for sensitive data. Since is doesn't prevent anyone from actually seeing, only adds an extra step or three, its just a way to not openly broadcast the information.