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at May 17, 2011 19:29 by dubogii


Initial Code
function getQueryVariable(variable)
{
       var query = window.location.search.substring(1);
       var vars = query.split("&");
       for (var i=0;i<vars.length;i++) {
               var pair = vars[i].split("=");
               if(pair[0] == variable){return pair[1];}
       }
       return(false);
}

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Usage

Example URL:

http://www.example.com/index.php?id=1&image=awesome.jpg

Calling getQueryVariable("id") - would return "1".
Calling getQueryVariable("image") - would return "awesome.jpg".

Initial URL
http://css-tricks.com/snippets/javascript/get-url-variables/

Initial Description

                                

Initial Title
Get URL Variables

Initial Tags
url

Initial Language
JavaScript