Ignored By Dinosaurs

  // creates a global variable called urlParams
  // adapt as needed.

  // will forcefully downcase all query string params

  // use --
  // http://www.ignoredbydinosaurs.com?foo=bar&test=2
  // urlParams.foo  // bar
  // urlParams.test // 2

  window.urlParams = (function () {
    var match,
    pl     = /\+/g,  // Regex for replacing addition symbol with a space
    search = /([^&=]+)=?([^&]*)/g,
    decode = function (s) { return decodeURIComponent(s.replace(pl, " ")); },
    query  = window.location.search.substring(1);

    var params = {};
    while (match = search.exec(query)) {
      params[decode(match[1]).toLowerCase()] = decode(match[2]);
    }

    return params;
  })();