Jquery function to return url parameters

Question

Is there a jquery function I can call to retrieve url paramaters.

I have been using this function below and it works fine but it breaks when the url has no parameters. I want it to return '' when there

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

      }

So for www.mywebsite.com/index?var1=foo calling getUrlParameter(var1) should return foo and for www.mywebsite.com getUrlParameter(var1) should return ' '

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/901115/how-can-i-get-query-string-values-in-javascript — Arun P Johny, Apr 04 '14 at 05:45

score -1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 04 '14 at 05:46

To implement this, I have created a function which returns value of any parameters variable.

function GetURLParameter(sParam) { var sPageURL = window.location.search.substring(1); var sURLVariables = sPageURL.split('&'); for (var i = 0; i < sURLVariables.length; i++) { var sParameterName = sURLVariables[i].split('='); if (sParameterName[0] == sParam) { return sParameterName[1]; } } }

And this is how you can use this function assuming the URL is, "http://dummy.com/?technology=jquery&blog=jquerybyexample".

var tech = GetURLParameter('technology'); var blog = GetURLParameter('blog');

So in above code variable "tech" will have "jQuery" as value and "blog" variable's will be "jquerybyexample".

I want it to work for urls with no variable so if I call getUrlParameter('blog') would return '' for www.mywebsite.com — Kwaasi Djin, Apr 04 '14 at 05:54

Jquery function to return url parameters

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