/* Copyright (c) 2006 Mathias Bank (http://www.mathias-bank.de)
 * Dual licensed under the MIT (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php) 
 * and GPL (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php) licenses.
 * 
 * Thanks to Hinnerk Ruemenapf - http://hinnerk.ruemenapf.de/ for bug reporting and fixing.

=head1 SYNOPSIS

	var param1 = $.getURLParam("userID");

=cut



 */
jQuery.extend({
/**
* Returns get parameters.
*
* If the desired param does not exist, null will be returned
*
* @example value = $.getURLParam("paramName");
*/ 
 getURLParam: function(strParamName){
	  var strReturn = "";
	  var strHref = window.location.href;
	  var bFound=false;
	  
	  var cmpstring = strParamName + "=";
	  var cmplen = cmpstring.length;

	  if ( (strHref.indexOf("?") == -1) && (strHref.indexOf("#") > -1) ){
		  strHref = strHref.replace(/#/, "?");
	  }

	  if ( strHref.indexOf("?") > -1 ){
	    var strQueryString = strHref.substr(strHref.indexOf("?")+1);
	    var aQueryString = strQueryString.split("&");
	    for ( var iParam = 0; iParam < aQueryString.length; iParam++ ){
	      if (aQueryString[iParam].substr(0,cmplen)==cmpstring){
	        var aParam = aQueryString[iParam].split("=");
	        strReturn = aParam[1];
	        bFound=true;
	        break;
	      }
	      
	    }
	  }
	  if (bFound==false) return null;
	  return strReturn;
	}
});