Get escaped URL parameter

Question

I\'m looking for a jQuery plugin that can get URL parameters, and support this search string without outputting the JavaScript error: \"malformed URI sequence\". If there is

Answer 1

If you don't know what the URL parameters will be and want to get an object with the keys and values that are in the parameters, you can use this:

function getParameters() {
  var searchString = window.location.search.substring(1),
      params = searchString.split("&"),
      hash = {};

  if (searchString == "") return {};
  for (var i = 0; i < params.length; i++) {
    var val = params[i].split("=");
    hash[unescape(val[0])] = unescape(val[1]);
  }
  return hash;
}

Calling getParameters() with a url like /posts?date=9/10/11&author=nilbus would return:

{
  date:   '9/10/11',
  author: 'nilbus'
}

I won't include the code here since it's even farther away from the question, but weareon.net posted a library that allows manipulation of the parameters in the URL too:

• Blog post: http://blog.weareon.net/working-with-url-parameters-in-javascript/
• Code: http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/1163515/