Best way to tackle longer URL with form?

[eluser]vitoco[/eluser]
i didn't get you completely, but from what i understood, you need default values in case of the validation fails, so if this is the case, you can set default values for the parameters of the method

Code:

public function hours($type = null , $action = null , $id = null )
{

  // VALIDATE HERE
}

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