Parse an URL in JavaScript
javascript, jquery, parse-url
Solution
You can use a trick of creating an `a`-element, add the url to it, and then use its Location object.
function parseUrl( url ) {
var a = document.createElement('a');
a.href = url;
return a;
}
parseUrl('http://example.com/form_image_edit.php?img_id=33').search
Which will output: `?img_id=33`
You could also use php.js to get the parse_url function in JavaScript.
Update (2012-07-05)
I would recommend using the excellent URI.js library if you need to do anything more than super simple URL handling.
Problem
How do I parse an URL with JavaScript (also with jQuery)? For instance I have this in my string, ``` url = "http://example.com/form_image_edit.php?img_id=33" ``` I want to get the value of `img_id` I know I can do this easily with PHP with `parse_url()`, but I want to know how it is possible with JavaScript.