I can’t believe that I couldn’t find a jQuery plugin or a vanilla-JS snippet that would parse the URL parameters infallibly. All of the solutions I stumbled upon were inconvenient to use or, probably surprisingly for their authors, failed when a parameter’s value contained the equal sign.
It felt like a right time to save the world myself, therefore I came up with the following code:
The snippet transforms this:
1 | http://example.com/lorem?foo=bar&foo2=baz&foo3= |
into this (mind the missing foo3 parameter):
1 | { |
The code has been tested on major browsers and seems to work flawlessly. However if anything goes wrong (naah, it won’t happen), let me know about it.