How-to get URL variables using JavaScript

get-query-variable.js

/**
Usage
Example URL:

http://www.example.com/index.php?id=1&image=awesome.jpg

Calling getQueryVariable("id") - would return "1".
Calling getQueryVariable("image") - would return "awesome.jpg".
 */

function getQueryVariable(variable)
{
       var query = window.location.search.substring(1);
       var vars = query.split("&");
       for (var i=0;i<vars.length;i++) {
               var pair = vars[i].split("=");
               if(pair[0] == variable){return pair[1];}
       }
       return(false);
}