url string manipulation 2

[machine08]

Hi all,

I'm having a hard time understanding how to compare url strings. Here's my scenario:

I have a button in my page that redirects user to another page. I would like to grab that url string and compare it with the url of the actual page the user is in. If I do an onclick event on the button I can get this url string:

function getButtonURL(x){
	var buttonURL= window.location.href;
	alert ("The button's URL is: " + buttonURL);
	}

If I do a global call for the page's URL I can also get that string:

var URLString = window.location.href;
alert (URLString);

The order these alerts happen is first the button URL then the current page URL.

My issue is grabbing both of those values and passing them unto a function to compare them. Could someone please advice how to go about doing this.

Thank you in advance!

 

[kaht]

I don't understand your question. You are storing window.location.href in 2 different variables, and you want to compare those 2 variables? They will always contain the same content if they are called from the same page.

-kaht

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[machine08]

Sorry I I did not explain myself well. What I want to compare is the window.location.href of the page with a button that redirects that page. I want to compare those 2 URL and do some string manipulations before redirecting the user.

I.E. window.href.location is

http://www.google.com

there's a button in the page that will redirect the user to:

http://www.yahoo.com.

When user clicks on the button I would like to do the following:

Grab

http://www.google.com

and

http://www.yahoo.com

and compare the strings. Then come up with a new URL and redirect the user to that URL.

Does that make sense? Thank you!

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Why do you want to compare them if you know they will always be different, anyway?

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[BabyJeffy]

Is this the kind of thing you are looking for?

function checkURL(link) {
 var linkLocation = link.href;
 var windowLocation = window.location.href;
 alert(linkLocation + "\n\n" + windowLocation);
}
...
<a href="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.google.co.uk"[/URL] onclick="checkURL(this);return false;>Google</a>

Obviously you wouldn't just alert the result like I have

Cheers,
Jeff

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[machine08]

OK let me give more details about the requirements. The current page might have a parameter in the url (ie. ?Area=US)

If there is a parameter in the current page and a user clicks on the button, I would like to pass this parameter to the button as well. Does this make sense?

 

[kaht]

If there is a parameter in the current page and a user clicks on the button

Is this button an anchor (<a href....), a javascript button (<input type="button".....), or a submission button (<input type="submit"....) ?

There may be an easy answer depending on which type of button it is.

-kaht

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[machine08]

Hi Kaht. This would be an anchor. Thanks!

 

[BabyJeffy]

machine08 - check my response a few posts back in this thread (you may have missed it).

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[kaht]

Hi Kaht. This would be an anchor. Thanks!

Then you'll want to follow Jeff's advice from his post above.

The reason I said that it made a difference is that if you are submitting a form then you can leave the action attribute blank and it will submit back to the page it was submitted from, including all the items in the querystring.

-kaht

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[machine08]

Kaht and BabyJeffy. Thank you both for your guidance and explanation. BabyJeffy, that worked great!