Question

I need to look at a href in a page and see if a certain bit of text is in the URL, if it is i need to change it to something else, then append a location to the end.

if the link contains “ice/app?service=page&page=probrowse”

ex: http://www.google.com/ice/app?service=page&page=probrowse&cat=1&year=2011

I need to change it to “club/probrowse.htm?”

ex: http://www.google.com/club/probrowse.htm?cat=1&year=2011

I am currently running the script below which takes into consideration ? and & in the URL and appending a location to the href.

<script type="text/javascript">
    jQuery(document).ready(function(){  
        jQuery('a').attr('href', function() {
                return (this.href.indexOf("?") >= 0) ? this.href + "&location=/abc/123" : this.href + "?location=/abc/123";
           });

    });
</script>

I ran into some other bumps due to the fact I am ingesting information from another site and need to make some minor URL changes.

The overall goal is to change

google.com/ice/app?service=page&page=probrowse&cat=1&year=2011

into

google.com/club/probrowse.htm?cat=1&year=2011&location=/abc/123

Answer 1

I belive this is what you are looking for:

<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery.noConflict();
jQuery(function(){
    var substr = 'ice/app?service=page&page=probrowse';
    var newstring = 'club/probrowse.htm?';
    jQuery("a").each(function(){
        if(this.href.indexOf(substr) != -1){
            var newHref = this.href;
            newHref = newHref.replace(substr, newstring);
            newHref += '&location=/abc/123';
            newHref = newHref.replace('?&','?');
            this.href = newHref;
        }
    });
});
</script>