PHP has $_GET variable, what does HTML have?

Question

I know if I have a php page, I can pass variables to the next page through the url with $_GET. Such as:

http://www.w3schools.com/welcome.php?fname=Peter&age=37

yields:

$currentName = $_GET["fname"]
$currentAge = $_GET["age"]

Is there an equally easy way to do this in pure HTML (or javascript)?

HTML is not a programming language. It's sort of possible with Javascript. — Dany Caissy, Jun 28 '13 at 19:14
Here is how you do it in Javascript: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/901115/how-can-i-get-query-string-values — karthikr, Jun 28 '13 at 19:16
Why would you want to if you're already using PHP even though it's not possible with html? — Panama Jack, Jun 28 '13 at 19:18
I'm not already using PHP. However, PHP was the only language I was familiar with that did what I wanted. — AllieCat, Jun 28 '13 at 19:18
Derp. Sorry for the duplicate - I'm a complete Javascript n00b and didn't know enough about Javascript to realize that! Thanks everyone for the quick and helpful feedback. You are the best! — AllieCat, Jun 28 '13 at 19:28

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 28 '13 at 19:20

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using jQuery you can get url parameters with window.location but parsing with regex

$.urlParameter = function(name){
    var results = new RegExp('[\\?&]' + name + '=([^&#]*)').exec(window.location.href);
    return results[1] || 0;
}

$.urlParameter('Parameter  name');

OR with JS

function urlParameter(name){
    var results = new RegExp('[\\?&]' + name + '=([^&#]*)').exec(window.location.href);
    return results[1] || 0;
}

urlParameter('Parameter  name');

answered Jun 28 '13 at 19:20

M Khalid Junaid

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That works without jQuery if you do `$={}` first. – Paul Jun 28 '13 at 19:21
Thanks for it just in simple Javascript. This is what I needed. – AllieCat Jun 28 '13 at 19:27

PHP has $_GET variable, what does HTML have?

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