jQuery deep linking plugins (#hash navigation)

Question

So far I've found Address (port of SWFaddress?) and BBQ. Which other plugins that provide this functionality exist, and which is better/standard?

So far I've only built my own hackish #-reading scripts, but need something that can handle multiple variables, i.e. #user=bob&sortBy=rating.

Any suggestions or opinions are welcome.

Thanks!

Answer 1

SWFAddress and BBQ are both good. If you want to continue to do it on your own, you can use both window.location.hash and window.location.search for the # and the query string respectively.

For example:

var hash = window.location.hash;
var qs = window.location.search.substring(1).split("&"); // this is an array for the QS

That's a bit hacky and for a more robust solution for the query string, you can check out Querystring