Thanks for making this plugin available. Very useful.

Question: What is the canonical way for parsing URLs in “strict” mode? It must something obvious, but I cannot find it…

I tried: $.url.setMode(“strict”) but still the URLs are parsed “loosely”. In the end I just copied the “strict regex” into the “loose regex” to get strict parsing, but well, that’s an ugly ugly hack of course.

Thanks

Thanks for that – but have you seen my new ‘beta’ version of the URL parser/setter plugin? http://allmarkedup.com/journal/2009/10/jquery-url-toolbox-beta/ It has methods of accessing querystring params and lots of other stuff, you might find it useful.

Still very beta though (and not much documentation at the moment I’m afraid) so if you do try it and spot any bugs then please let me know.

I needed a `params` method to get all querystring methods by hash data and I wrote a patch for this:

jQuery.extend(jQuery.url, {
params: function(){
var paramsArray = this.attr(‘query’) ? this.attr(‘query’).split(‘&’) : [];
var params = {};
for(param in paramsArray) {
var prm = paramsArray[param].split(‘=’);
params[prm[0]] = prm[1];
}
return params;
}
});

For example;
jQuery.url.setUrl(‘http://example.com/?brand=12&model=25′).params()

returns (object):
{brand:12, model:25}

Maybe someone need this too…

Frankly, all the jQuery plugins that deal with this fall short in this regard. The main features I feel are missing are:

(since the url params are essentially a hash, we should be able to get an array of keys and values easily)
param.keys
param.values
These methods should also SET the keys/values if you supply them with a (shallow) array

And for this particular one, I think the attr and param methods should also be used for SETTING values, as is the standard for many core jQuery methods:

jQuery.url.attr(“host”,”google.com”); // would redirect to google
jQuery.url.param(“myParam”,”foobar”); // would set “myParam=foobar” in the parameter string

Maybe I’ll take an hour or two and enhance one of these plugins to do this properly.

Cheers.

-Steve

This url parser is great! Thanks Mark :o) But I have recently started using it on the same page as ui tabs (see http://stilbuero.de/jquery/tabs_3/) . On pages with tabs, I get the following javascript error jQuery.url is null or not an object. Do you know why this might be? Is there a way for me to fix this so that the two plugins don’t interfere with each other?

Let me know if you need more info! (I’m afraid I can’t send you a link to the problem because it’s an intranet).

Many thanks,

Katie

jQuery.url.setUrl(“http://mysite.com/different_url.php?test=4″).param(“test”)

I hope that makes sense! Let me know if anything is not clear.