/* 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.
 */
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 ){
        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;
    }
});