 <p>try using the "url"-option of the form-helper, like:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?= $form-&gt;create('Car',array('url' =&gt; '/.../search')) ?&gt; </code></pre> <p>EDIT (quick n' dirty fix):</p> <pre><code>&lt;form action=".../search" method="post"&gt; &lt;input type="text" name="data[Car][model]" /&gt; &lt;input type="text" name="data[Car][year]" /&gt; &lt;?=$form-&gt;end("Search")?&gt; </code></pre>