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This is what I did. Its the EASIEST solution that I know of. I just reused the advanced search done in CGridView.

CGridView (or CListView) together with CActiveDataProvider is a very powerful combination of the built-in tools of Yii. But how do they work together to accomplish their fantastic functions? And what are you expected to do to use them and to customize their behaviors? This article explains the very basics of them.

Since I used CGridView for a first time, I didn't like how it handled operations like sorting, filtering, changing page and etc using AJAX.

The popular CListView and CGridView widgets each take a data provider and iterate over each data object produced, calling the user's code to render each row one at a time, and most are familiar with the use of the $data variable to represent the current model object or array.

This tutorial shows how to filter CListView items by AJAX, and it's compatible with disabled JavaScript users In my case this has been done to filter users list

If you don't want to use any of the AJAX features of CListView and thus want to prevent that it publishes any of its asset files, you can extend it and create a sub class like this: