Reading URL parameters...

I want to be able to process parameters passed along with the url. Something like:
http://www.thispage.com/help?topic=browsing

The only ways I currently know how to process the parameters are using a custom CGI script or some server application like ColdFusion. Is there a way to access this via Javascript? Or even something simpler?

Thanks!

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Dan Gilbert
dan@26thavenue.com
http://www.26thavenue.com

Sure, all you are doing is setting a variable and giving it a value, which can be accessed in Javascript, or in server-side scripting.

So when the browser calls this URL:
http://www.thispage.com/help?topic=browsing

The variable "topic" now has the value "browsing", which you can now proceed to use in any way you want. In Javascript inside that page you could do

document.write(topic)

and the browser would print out

browsing

Hello..

An alternate means to process URL parameters is with XSSI - which is very browser-independent.

For more information on XSSI, WebMonkey holds a great tutorial on it at http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey...html?tw=backend

Good Luck!
Josh http://www.datera.com

Hi, i am new in javascript

How about passing a javascript variable to the url??

something like...

mypage.html?name=username&id=userdi

can any one help??

Does anyone know if this can be done in PHP3 too?
It would help me a lot...

Of course it can be done in PHP. Just try it and see.

test.php3:

<?php
echo $testvariable;
?>

open http://yourserver/test.php3?testvariable=Hello+World!

mfkoo:

You can pass variables between pages using location.search

An example:

if you call a page with a javascript generated link like:

<a href="Profile.htm?Name='Peric Ofpalots';Gender='male';Age=15">View your profile</a>

Profile.htm must have this code inside the <SCRIPT> tag:

eval(location.search.substring(1));


this creates the variables Name,Gender & Age (if they were'nt defined) and puts the specified information inside them.

You can find a tutorial on sending objects from page to page via Javascript here:
http://www.wsabstract.com/javatutors/send1.shtml

Spookster

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