How do I work with all this data without making my URLs too long?

[eluser]KeyStroke[/eluser]
Hi,

I basically have a section of my site where the items can be viewed depending on their country and city, and then the results can be sorted by data, number of views or whatever else.

I don't want to end up with URLs looking like this:

http://example.com/controller/function/c...t_by_date/

Because it's very linear and not flexible in case I needed to add something else in the future.

So, how could I overcome this limitation?

If it can't be overcome, then is there a way I can enable GET variables for this section (i.e: Controller) for my site?


Your help is much appreciated