What JavaScript library should I use for parsing URL parameters?

Question

How do I parse URL parameters in JavaScript? (These are the parameters I would ordinarily call GET parameters or CGI parameters, but in this case the page is basically subm

Answer 1

The best way I have found is to simply do it yourself and funnel the params into a global key/value object.

Getting quer params is simple...

just take a couple of .split()'s

var myquery = thewholeurl.split("?")[1]; //will get the whole querystring with the ?

then you can do a

myparams = myquery.split("&")

then you can do

for each param in myparams
{
temp = param.split("=");

mykeys.push(temp[0]);
myvalues.push(temp[1]);

OR

myObject[temp[0]] = temp[1];
}

It's just a matter of style.

This is not perfect code, just psuedo stuff to give you the idea.

Answer 2

I think this library would work quite well, it is independent so you can use it with JQuery or with YAHOO or Dojo, another advantage is that it is pretty well documented.

http://www.openjsan.org/doc/t/th/theory/HTTP/Query/0.03/lib/HTTP/Query.html

You can use HTTP.Query to do all of the work for you in this case. It is only like 1.2 KB compressed so you could even include it in a bigger library if you wanted.