Get current URL parameters as hash (JS)

Hi All,

Today I was working with ajax polling and I found that I needed the GET parameters of my current URL in a hash to pass into the ajax data field.

I wrote a simple function to do this and thought some of you may get some use out of it.

function getUrlParameters() {
 var pageParamString = unescape(window.location.search.substring(1));
 var paramsArray = pageParamString.split('&');
 var paramsHash = {};

 for (var i = 0; i < paramsArray.length; i++)
 {
 var singleParam = paramsArray[i].split('=');
 paramsHash[singleParam[0]] = singleParam[1];
 }
 return paramsHash;
}

This function can then be passed directly to your ajax data field:

$.ajax({
 url: 'url_here',
 data: getUrlParameters(),
 success: function (response) {
 // do stuff
 }
}

Thanks for reading!

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