How to only display the search results when needed in cakephp - cakephp

Question

I have the following situation where I want to only display the search results when user search for something. Currrently, as I access my search page, all the search results is being displayed and if user search for a particular thing, it displays that accordingly. The following is the code in my search controller. I added a pagination for it to paginate.
function simple_search() {
$this->User->recursive = 1;
$this->Passion->recursive = 1;
$this->User->unBindModel(array('hasMany' => array('Topic','Post')),false);
$conditions = array();
$options;
$or_conditions = array();
$final_conditions = array();
$search_fields = array('User.firstName', 'User.lastName', 'User.email', 'User.displayName'); //fields to search 'Video.tags','Video.desc'
$this->layout = "mainLayout";
$value='';
if(!empty($this->params["url"]["value"])){
$value = $this->params["url"]["value"];
}
$searches = explode(" ", $value);
foreach ($search_fields as $f) {
array_push($conditions, array("$f Like" => "$value%"));
for ($i = 0; $i < count($searches); $i++) {
if ($searches[$i] != "") {
array_push($conditions, array("$f Like" => "$searches[$i]%"));
}
}
array_push($or_conditions, array('OR' => $conditions));
$conditions = array();
}
$final_conditions = array('OR' => $or_conditions);
$users = $this->User->find('all', $final_conditions);
$this->paginate = array(
'conditions' => $final_conditions,
'limit' => 10
);
$users = $this->paginate('User');
$this->set('search_fields', $users);
}

Answer 1

remove that find('all'), you overwrite $users right after that.
if(empty($this->params["url"]["value"]))$users = array();
else $users = $this->paginate('User');