Yii - GET param in URL path

Question

I have the following URL rule in config/main:

'urlManager'=>array(
    //'appendParams' => true, // I've tried it without success.
    'urlFormat'=>'path',
    'rules' => array(
        // other rules...
        'experience/search/<param:\w+>' => 'experience/searchExperiences',

I use a form with the GET method and I expect it to produce a URL like this:

http://site.dev/experience/search/Viseu

But what I get is:

http://site.dev/experience/search?searchText=Viseu

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This is the form part:

<form action="/experience/search" method="get" class="search-form">
    <div class="cell">
<?php
        $this->widget(
            'zii.widgets.jui.CJuiAutoComplete',
            array(
                'id' => "search-text",
                'name' => "searchText",
                'options' => array(
                    'minLength' => '3',
                ),
                'source' =>
                    'js: function(request, response) {
                        getSuggestions(request, response);
                    }',
            )
        );
?>
    </div>

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How could Yii be set up to do that?

Answer 1

Rule used: 'experience/search/<param:\w+>' => 'experience/searchExperiences',

JavaScript code added on submit:

$('#form-search').submit(function(event) {
    var searchText = $('#search-text').val();
    $('#form-search').attr("action", '/experience/search/' + searchText);
});

Changed the form's method to POST:

<form id="form-search" action="/experience/search" method="post" class="search-form">

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I will still wait for any better suggestion.