Question

I want to parse the hash fragment into an associative array in javascript, just like the $_GET superglobal in PHP.
Here is the URL:

www.mysite.com/randompage#name=donald&lastname=mclotsoquestions&age=25

So far I have this:

var hashfragment = location.hash;
var hashfragment_array = hashfragment.split('&');

Hashfragment_array is [“#name=donald”,”lastname=mclotsoquestions”,”age=25″]

How can I create key value pairs from this?

Answer 1

Use jQuery BBQ, which is a battle-tested library that handles state management.

$(window).on('hashchange', function(e) { // event fired when the fragment changes
    var frag = $.deparam.fragment();
});

It also makes adding or changing the fragment easy:

$.bbq.pushState({ someParam: 'value' });