Grabbing value from URL

**TrainReq** · Dec 22, 2006, 19:46

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**Raffles** · Dec 22, 2006, 21:00

The best thing, in my opinion, would be to do it on the server side with PHP or some other language.

PHP Code:


if($_GET['name']) {
  echo '<div id="name" style="display:none;">' . $_GET['name'] . '</div>';
}

**TrainReq** · Dec 22, 2006, 21:41

It is a long story why.. but i NEED to have it done in Javascript.. no serverside will work.

**logitron** · Dec 22, 2006, 22:27

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
	<head>
		<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">
		<title>Some Title</title>
		<script type="text/javascript">
			function printLocation()
			{
				var loc = location.href
				var pairs = loc.split('name=')
				document.getElementById('response').appendChild(document.createTextNode(pairs[1]))
			}
		</script>
	</head>
	<body onload="printLocation()">
		<div id="response"></div>
	</body>
</html>

This would get it. Might need modifying for your case, but it would retrieve "John" from http://www.blah.com/index.htm?name=John or any URL that ended with "name=John".

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