具有过滤参数的分页产品

Question

I haven't been working with PHP for some time and now I have to solve a problem about statement of products with pagination and filtration (by price, by the newest ones etc).

This is my url example: web.com/category-name - when I want to paginate products, I use for this purpose the $_GET variable, like: web.com/category-name?p=2.

Now to this basic pagination I would need to add parameters for filtration. My first idea would be to send form as post and the sent data for sorting save into the SESSIONS and always check, if the parameters for filtration are in SESSION and if they are, then I will filter products.

But I am not really sure that this solution is clean... I don't want to use GET for filter parameters, because there is a lot of possible parameters...

Can I ask you, how would you solve this situation?

Answer 1

I prefer to use POST and save parameters information inside hidden inputs, the problem with SESSION is that if an user closes the browser/tab and goes back it will be where it was instead of the beginning.

Also, if you use the same params in another module (like page=6) of the website it could show another results at page 6 instead of the first one.