Question

I am trying to check if the current url

base_url/index.php?name0=value0&name1=value1&name2=value2...

contains a specific name=value. I tried this

var path = $.inArray('name=value', $(location).attr('href').split('&'));
        if (path  > -1){ triggers my function...}

But I guess that this wouldn’t work if the url is url encoded. Is there a way to check if the url contains name=value without checking all the conditions (split('&') or split('%26')) ?

Answer 1

Split will always work, because & part of url is not encoded if it split parameters. However, you can have name or value encoded in the url. To search for them, you should use encodeURI like that:

var path = $.inArray(encodeURI('name=value'), $(location).attr('href').split('&'));
    if (path  > -1){ triggers my function...}