Method 2: Adding a new state with pushState() Method: The pushState() method is used to add a new history entry with the properties passed as parameters. This will change the current URL to the new state given without reloading the page.
Use htmlentities to read the $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] and decode the query string using html_entity_decode . Use parse_str to extract array of key values of query parameters. Filter and Sanitize the array using filter_var_array with array to sanitize as the first arg and FILTER_SANITIZE_ENCODED as the second argument.
So if you're asking how to deal with the value of a query string you just simply access it Request. QueryString["key"]. If you're wanting this 'change' in query string to be considered by the server you just need to effectively reload the page with the new value. So construct the url again page.
The URLSearchParams interface defines utility methods to work with the query string of a URL.
If you are looking for Hash modification, your solution works ok. However, if you want to change the query, you can use the pushState, as you said. Here it is an example that might help you to implement it properly. I tested and it worked fine:
if (history.pushState) {
var newurl = window.location.protocol + "//" + window.location.host + window.location.pathname + '?myNewUrlQuery=1';
window.history.pushState({path:newurl},'',newurl);
}
It does not reload the page, but it only allows you to change the URL query. You would not be able to change the protocol or the host values. And of course that it requires modern browsers that can process HTML5 History API.
For more information:
http://diveintohtml5.info/history.html
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/API/DOM/Manipulating_the_browser_history
I want to improve Fabio's answer and create a function which adds custom key to the URL string without reloading the page.
function insertUrlParam(key, value) {
if (history.pushState) {
let searchParams = new URLSearchParams(window.location.search);
searchParams.set(key, value);
let newurl = window.location.protocol + "//" + window.location.host + window.location.pathname + '?' + searchParams.toString();
window.history.pushState({path: newurl}, '', newurl);
}
}
Building off of Fabio's answer, I created two functions that will probably be useful for anyone stumbling upon this question. With these two functions, you can call insertParam()
with a key and value as an argument. It will either add the URL parameter or, if a query param already exists with the same key, it will change that parameter to the new value:
//function to remove query params from a URL
function removeURLParameter(url, parameter) {
//better to use l.search if you have a location/link object
var urlparts= url.split('?');
if (urlparts.length>=2) {
var prefix= encodeURIComponent(parameter)+'=';
var pars= urlparts[1].split(/[&;]/g);
//reverse iteration as may be destructive
for (var i= pars.length; i-- > 0;) {
//idiom for string.startsWith
if (pars[i].lastIndexOf(prefix, 0) !== -1) {
pars.splice(i, 1);
}
}
url= urlparts[0] + (pars.length > 0 ? '?' + pars.join('&') : "");
return url;
} else {
return url;
}
}
//function to add/update query params
function insertParam(key, value) {
if (history.pushState) {
// var newurl = window.location.protocol + "//" + window.location.host + search.pathname + '?myNewUrlQuery=1';
var currentUrlWithOutHash = window.location.origin + window.location.pathname + window.location.search;
var hash = window.location.hash
//remove any param for the same key
var currentUrlWithOutHash = removeURLParameter(currentUrlWithOutHash, key);
//figure out if we need to add the param with a ? or a &
var queryStart;
if(currentUrlWithOutHash.indexOf('?') !== -1){
queryStart = '&';
} else {
queryStart = '?';
}
var newurl = currentUrlWithOutHash + queryStart + key + '=' + value + hash
window.history.pushState({path:newurl},'',newurl);
}
}
I've used the following JavaScript library with great success:
https://github.com/balupton/jquery-history
It supports the HTML5 history API as well as a fallback method (using #) for older browsers.
This library is essentially a polyfill around `history.pushState'.
Since everyone answering this seems to forget the hash, I want to add the code I'm using to keep all URL parameters:
const urlParams = new URLSearchParams(window.location.search);
/// Change some part of the URL params
if (history.pushState) {
const newurl =
window.location.protocol +
"//" +
window.location.host +
window.location.pathname +
"?" +
urlParams.toString() +
window.location.hash;
window.history.replaceState({ path: newurl }, "", newurl);
} else {
window.location.search = urlParams.toString();
}
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