form action=GET with s.e. friendly URLs

[Bert Dawson]

Does anyone have a way of doing the equivalent of a form GET,  but using the
search/engine/friendly URLS, so the results page can be bookmarked?
ie the results page URL looks like:
index.cfm/fuseaction/search/text/findthis

I've written a bit of javascript which seems to do the trick - i'm no js
expert, and i just knocked it up while we lost our network connection.
Also, it works like a normal form submit if js is disabled (i think, though
i haven't tried it on NS...)

here it is anyway:

here's how i call it:
<input type="Submit" 
       name="bsearch" 
       value="Search" 
       onclick="return sefformget(this.form.name,'/index.cfm/bsearch/1');">

and heres the .js file stuff:

// start of .js file

var aNames = new Array();

function myobj(oname, ovalue){
    this.oname = oname;
    this.ovalue = ovalue;
}

function addtoarray(n,v){
    if (v.length > 0){
        for (var i = 0; i < aNames.length ; i++) {
            if (aNames[i].oname == n) {
                aNames[i].ovalue = aNames[i].ovalue + ',' + v;
                return true;
            } 
        }
        aNames[aNames.length] = new myobj(n,v);
        return false;
    }
    return false;
}

function sefformget(myform,str) {
    
    var f = document.forms[myform];
    var ln = f.elements.length;

    for (var i = 0; i < ln; i++) {
        var e = f.elements[i];
        var t = e.type;
        var n = e.name;
        var v = e.value;

        if ((t == 'checkbox' || t=='radio') && (e.checked == true)) {
            addtoarray(n,v);
        } else if (t == 'text' || t == 'hidden' || t == 'textarea') {
            v = escape(v);
            v = v.replace(/\//g,'%2F');
            addtoarray(n,v);
        } else if (t == 'select-one' || t == 'select-multiple') {
            for (var j = 0; j < e.length; j++) {
                if (e.options[j].selected == true) {
                    v = e.options[j].value;
                    addtoarray(n,v);
                }
            }
        }
    }

    for (var i = 0; i < aNames.length ; i++) {
        str = str + '/' + aNames[i].oname + '/' + aNames[i].ovalue;
    }

    window.location = str;
    return false;
}
// end of .js file

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