How would i do the following in javascript?

Do a GET call to a URL, with additional parameter .e.g.

I want to do GET to http://test with parameter myid = 5.

Thanks, Boots

How would i do the following in javascript?

Do a GET call to a URL, with additional parameter .e.g.

I want to do GET to http://test with parameter myid = 5.

Thanks, Boots

• javascript

5 Answers 5

try something like:

location.replace('http://test./sometest.html?myid=5&someotherid=6');

or

location.href = 'http://test./sometest.html?myid=5&someotherid=6';

If by "Do a 'GET' call to a url" you mean to change the current location to a certain url, all you have to do is assign the new url to the location variable:

var newUrl = "http://test";
window.location = newUrl;

If you want to construct the url by adding some query parameters, you can do :

newUrl += "?myid=" + myid;

In addition, you can use a function to map the parameters to the url :

function generateUrl(url, params) {
    var i = 0, key;
    for (key in params) {
        if (i === 0) {
            url += "?";
        } else {
            url += "&";
        }
        url += key;
        url += '=';
        url += params[key];
        i++;
    }
    return url;
}

And then you could use it as :

window.location = generateUrl("http://test",{ 
    myid: 1,
    otherParameter: "other param value"
});  

obs: this function only works for int/bool/string variables in the params object. Objects and arrays cannot be used in this form.

You'd just include it normally in the query string: http://test?myid=5&otherarg=3

var myid = 5;
window.location = "http://test?myid=" + myid;

If you only want to call it. And don't go to it: Use an AJAX request:

$.ajax({
    url: 'http://test/?myid=5'
});

Here in jQuery. But there are enough non-jQuery examples on the internet.