How to add a parameter to the URL?

Question

My current URL is: http://something.com/mobiles.php?brand=samsung

Now when a user clicks on a minimum price filter (say 300), I want my URL to become

http://something.com/mobiles.php?brand=samsung&priceMin=300

In other words, I am looking for a javascript function which will add a specified parameter in the current URL and then re-direct the webpage to the new URL.

Note: If no parameters are set then the function should add ? instead of &

i.e. if the current URL is http://something.com/mobiles.php then page should be re-directed to http://something.com/mobiles.php?priceMin=300 instead of http://something.com/mobiles.php&priceMin=300

Answer 1

try something like this, it should consider also cases when you already have that param in url:

function addOrUpdateUrlParam(name, value)
{
  var href = window.location.href;
  var regex = new RegExp("[&\\?]" + name + "=");
  if(regex.test(href))
  {
    regex = new RegExp("([&\\?])" + name + "=\\d+");
    window.location.href = href.replace(regex, "$1" + name + "=" + value);
  }
  else
  {
    if(href.indexOf("?") > -1)
      window.location.href = href + "&" + name + "=" + value;
    else
      window.location.href = href + "?" + name + "=" + value;
  }
}

then you invoke it like in your case:

addOrUpdateUrlParam('priceMin', 300);