How to check if a query string value is present via JavaScript?

Question

How can I check if the query string contains a q= in it using JavaScript or jQuery?

Answer 1

This should help:

function getQueryParams(){
    try{
        url = window.location.href;
        query_str = url.substr(url.indexOf('?')+1, url.length-1);
        r_params = query_str.split('&');
        params = {}
        for( i in r_params){
            param = r_params[i].split('=');
            params[ param[0] ] = param[1];
        }
        return params;
    }
    catch(e){
       return {};
    }
}