2009/08/28 08:32

Javascript based query parser for AJAX application


When you want to pass data from one web page to another when server-side scripting is not available, and without setting a cookie? Here's the really good javascript you can use.

<script>
function QueryParser(str)
{
  if (str)
  {
    str = unescape(str);
    if (str.indexOf("?") === 0)
    {
      str = str.substring(1);
    }
    var args = str.split("&");
    for (var i = 0; i < args.length; i++)
    {
      var pair = args[i].split("=");
      if (pair.length >= 1)
      {
        var prop = pair.shift();
        this[prop] = (pair.length == 1) ? pair[0] : (pair.length > 1) ? pair.join('=') : '';
      }
    }
  }
  this.set = function (prop, value) { return this[prop] = value; };
  this.clear = function (prop)
  {
    if(typeof this[prop] !== 'undefined')
    {
      this.set(prop, null);
      return true;
    }
    else { return false; }
  };
  this.build = function (baseURL, hashName)
  {
    baseURL = (!baseURL || typeof baseURL !== 'string') ? '?' : (baseURL.indexOf("?") === -1) ? (baseURL + '?') : baseURL;
    hashName = (!hashName || typeof hashName !== 'string') ? '' : (hashName.indexOf("#") === -1) ? ('#' + hashName) :

hashName;
    var strArray = [];
    for (var prop in this)
    {
      if (typeof this[prop] !== 'undefined' && typeof this[prop] !== 'function' && this[prop] !== null)
      {
        strArray.push([prop, '=', this[prop]].join(''));
      }
    }
    return baseURL + strArray.join('&') + hashName;
  };
  this.buildLink = function (baseURL, linkTxt)
  {
    var url = this.build(baseURL);
    return [ '<a href="', url, '">', ((!linkTxt) ? url : linkTxt), '</a>' ].join('');
  };
}
var $q = new QueryParser(location.search);
</script>


Following is the simple example for above javascript.

EXAMPLE
URL: http://www.mydomain.com/mydir/page.h...&potential=110
$q.name will hold the value 'Super Coder'
$q.rank will hold the value '9999999999'
$q.potential will hold the value '110'
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