<p>I have a search form on each of my pages. If I use form helper, it defaults to <code>$_POST</code>. I'd like the search term to show up in the URI:</p>

<pre><code>http://example.com/search/KEYWORD
</code></pre>

<p>I've been on Google for about an hour, but to no avail. I've only found articles on how <code>$_GET</code> is basically disabled, because of the native URI convention. I can't be the first person to want this kind of functionality, am I? Thanks in advance!</p>

I don't know much about CodeIgniter, but it's PHP, so shouldn't
```
$_GET
```
still be available to you? You could format your URL the same way Google does:
```
mysite.com/search?q=KEYWORD
```
and pull the data out with
```
$_GET['q']
```
.
Besides, a search form seems like a bad place to use POST; GET is bookmarkable and doesn't imply that something is changing server-side.