How to skip fetching data before search??

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
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I have a table which has many many records.

Now I want to bypass the first time result, users must search for something first in order to show the filtered records.

How can I do that in a simple way??

Thanks

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I just found that I can use the following method (setting data = empty array) to prevent the first time searching

But is it stupid and correct ??


return new CActiveDataProvider(get_class($this), array(

			'criteria' => $criteria,

			'sort' => $sort,

			'pagination' => false,

			'data'=>array(),
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So no body have idea to handle that issue?