CakePHP Search Plugin Repopulate Date - date

Question

I am using the search plugin by CakeDC.
I have filtering between dates working, but after performing a search the Date dropdowns are not repopulated with the searched date.
Can anyone figure out why my date forms are not repopulating? I thought it might be because I am converting the date to a string in the or conditions, but as far as I can tell the or Conditions demand a string.
Here is the code:
Model
public $filterArgs = array(
'from_date' => array('type' => 'query', 'method' => 'orConditionsFromDate'),
'end_date' => array('type' => 'query', 'method' => 'orConditionsEndDate'),
);
public function orConditionsFromDate($data = array()) {
$filterFrom = $data['from_date'];
$fromString = "$filterFrom[year]-$filterFrom[month]-01";
$cond = array(
'MovieStar.reject_date >=' => $fromString,
);
return $cond;
}
public function orConditionsEndDate($data = array()) {
$filterEnd = $data['end_date'];
$endString = "$filterEnd[year]-$filterEnd[month]-$filterEnd[day]";
debug('$data');
debug($data);
$cond = array(
'MovieStar.reject_date <=' => $endString,
);
return $cond;
}
public function getFromDateFormOptions(){
$dateFieldOptions['type'] = 'date';
$dateFieldOptions['div'] = array( 'style' => 'width:180px');
$dateFieldOptions['required'] = false;
$dateFieldOptions['maxYear'] = date('Y');
$fromDateFieldOptions = $dateFieldOptions;
$fromMonth = date('m') - 1;
$fromYear = date('Y');
if($fromMonth == 0){
$fromMonth = 12;
$fromYear = $fromYear - 1;
}
$fromDateFieldOptions['selected'] = array('day' => 1, 'month' => $fromMonth, 'year' => $fromYear );
$fromDateFieldOptions['label'] = 'From';
//$myFromDateFormField = $this->Form->input('from_date', $fromDateFieldOptions);
//return $myFromDateFormField;
return $fromDateFieldOptions;
}
public function getEndDateFormOptions(){
$dateFieldOptions['type'] = 'date';
$dateFieldOptions['div'] = array( 'style' => 'width:180px');
$dateFieldOptions['required'] = false;
$dateFieldOptions['maxYear'] = date('Y');
$endDateFieldOptions = $dateFieldOptions;
$endDate = date('t'); // last day of current month
$endDateFieldOptions['selected'] = array('day' => $endDate, 'month' => date('m'), 'year' => date('Y'));
$endDateFieldOptions['label'] = 'To';
//$myEndDateFormField = $this->Form->input('end_date', $endDateFieldOptions);
//return $myEndDateFormField;
return $endDateFieldOptions;
}
View:
<?php
echo $this->Form->create('MovieStar', array(
'url' => array_merge(array('action' => 'index'), $this->params['pass'])
));
?>
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<?php echo $this->Form->input('from_date', $myFromDateFormOptions); ?>
</td>
<td>
<?php echo $this->Form->input('end_date', $myEndDateFormOptions); ?>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<?php
echo $this->Form->submit(__('Search'), array());
echo $this->Form->end();
?>
Controller
$myFromDateFormOptions = $this->MovieStar->getFromDateFormOptions();
$myEndDateFormOptions = $this->MovieStar->getEndDateFormOptions();
$this->set(compact('myFromDateFormOptions'));
$this->set(compact('myEndDateFormOptions'));