Retrieving Parameters passed within the URL

[Dfisher]

We need to retrieve parameters passed from one page to another, that have been added to the end of the URL with the ?fieldname=sssssss&2ndfield=ttttt.

[nikkiH]

With javascript, I assume?
http://www.ipwebdesign.net/useful_parseUrl.html

[glenngv]

A more generic solution.

http://www.codingforum.net/showthread.php?t=25786

[shyam]

function parseQueryString() {
var url = document.location.href;
var qryStr = url.substr(url.indexOf("?")+1);
var params = new Array();
var splits = qryStr.split("&");
for ( i = 0; i < splits.length; i++ ) {
  var actual = splits[i].split("=");
  params[actual[0]] = actual[1];
}
return params
}

[glenngv]

function parseQueryString() {
var url = document.location.href;
var qryStr = url.substr(url.indexOf("?")+1);
var params = new Array();
var splits = qryStr.split("&");
for ( i = 0; i < splits.length; i++ ) {
  var actual = splits[i].split("=");
  params[actual[0]] = actual[1];
}
return params
}

That's incomplete. You have to unescape the key-value pair and replace +'s with spaces and allow multiple values with keys of the same name, etc. The link I posted seems to be the most robust parse URL script I've seen.

[shyam]

wow! thanx for the pointer