jQuery: How to get parameters of a url?

Question

New to jQuery and I\'m having trouble getting the parameters of a url that my server generates. I have a url like this:

Answer 1

small improvement, parse the url only once, return array or params:

function getURLParameters(url){

    var result = {};
    var hashIndex = url.indexOf("#");
    if (hashIndex > 0)
       url = url.substr(0, hashIndex);        
    var searchIndex = url.indexOf("?");
    if (searchIndex == -1 ) return result;
    var sPageURL = url.substring(searchIndex +1);
    var sURLVariables = sPageURL.split('&');
    for (var i = 0; i < sURLVariables.length; i++)
    {       
        var sParameterName = sURLVariables[i].split('=');      
        result[sParameterName[0]] = sParameterName[1];
    }
    return result;
}

http://jsfiddle.net/shakhal/gXM3u/