Grabbing part of URL and sending to new URL

Asked Sep 02 '16 at 18:53

Active Sep 02 '16 at 18:53

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My Javascript experience is limited, so I apologize in advance.

Essentially, what I'm trying to do is make a button that grabs a part of the current URL (user ID) and then sends the user to a new URL with the user ID in it.

So, let's say the current URL is this:

owl.uwo.ca/account/12345/webpage.html/?userid=[6789]

And I need to send the user to this:

completestudent.ca/account?userid=[6789]&resourceid=[JG56J]

Am I on the right track with this code?

function completeModule(){
    var pathArray = window.location.pathname.split( '/' );
    var userID = pathArray[4];
    var completeLink = "completestudent.ca/account"+userID+"&resourceid=[JG56J]";
    window.location.assign(completeLink)
}

Any help is much appreciated.

asked Sep 02 '16 at 18:53

Jordan Coop

Does it not work? For what you are doing (which is slightly odd to do in the front end), it should work. – Caspar Wylie Sep 02 '16 at 18:58
I'd suggest to use [this](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2090551/parse-query-string-in-javascript) – Aᴍɪʀ Sep 02 '16 at 18:59
`location.pathname` does not return the parameters part, try with `.href` or directly with `.search` – yuriy636 Sep 02 '16 at 19:01

Grabbing part of URL and sending to new URL

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