Window Location Params

[sail3005]

there is using ASP, but i don't think so using javascript.

[CornedBee]

I miss my reference, but I think you can get the whole location line (including the ?... part) and then use regular expressions to extract the url. Not sure if you can get the whole line, the rest would work.

All the buzzt
CornedBee

[sebs]

in javascript you can,

use the window.location

var path = new String(window.location);

[JoshT]

No, HTML is not a programming language. You could map the .htm file extension to some scripting or cgi language so it get processed before it gets served.

[eiSecure]

so how would u parse it out?
(sorry, I'm not too good with javascript.)

[sail3005]

run it through a loop, going through every character with charAt() until you hit a ?. then set everything after that to a new string.

[CornedBee]

it's easier to use this code:

var newString = oldString.substr(indexof('?'));

not sure if you have to use substr or substring, one uses param 2 for the last character (this is the one you don't want) and one uses param 2 as the length of the substring (this is the one you want, since no second param means from param 1 to end of string)

All the buzzt
CornedBee

[sebs]

here's a function that i did a while ago:

function request(obj){
var position=0;
var fullLength=0;
var value='';

url=new String(location.href);
fullLength=parseInt(url.length);
position=url.indexOf(obj);
if(position==-1 || url.charAt((position+obj.length+1))=='&'){
	return '';
}else{
	position += obj.length;

	do{
		position++;
		value+=url.charAt(position);
	}while(url.charAt((position+1))!='&' && (position+1)!=fullLength); 

	return unescape(value);
	}
}

[sebs]

for my function just do:


var returnValue;

returnValue=request("someParam");

if the url is

...?someParam=testing&param2=nothing

request("someParam") would equal testing

request("param2") would equal nothing

[CornedBee]

was this intended?
&para

[CornedBee]

just found out that a & followed by para converts to this sign: &para

[sebs]

that's weird,!!

[sail3005]

vbulletin has wierd things like that. i hate when it renders smilies in my code.

[Wynd]

That's built into HTML. Like if you write &ouml you get &ouml (o umlaut).

[CornedBee]

Originally posted by sail3005
vbulletin has wierd things like that. i hate when it renders smilies in my code.

You can switch that off. Just below the message text field is a checkbox that says "disable smilies in this post".

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CornedBee

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