Re: Variables in the URL - and how to get them

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Variables in the URL - and how to get them

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Re: Variables in the URL - and how to get them

Feb 7th, 2007

It depends. It can be done in Javascript or using a serverside language.

Which would you rather do?

For reference, that part of the URL is called the 'query string'.

Server side langauges often have simplified interfaces to access the 'variables' in a query string. Javascript has no such interface; but it is possible to get reference to the entire URL of a page (address + query string), and to split that down into its component parts.

An example is here:

http://www.activsoftware.com/code_sa..._in_JavaScript

(That's a somewhat wasteful procedure if you want to repeatadly get at the different variables in a query string; but its not too bad if you have alot of potential variables and are only interested in a few of them)

If it only works in Internet Explorer; it doesn't work.

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Re: Variables in the URL - and how to get them

Variables in the URL - and how to get them

Re: Variables in the URL - and how to get them