Read a page's GET URL variables and return them as an associative array.

function getUrlVars()
 {
  var vars = [], hash;
  var hashes = window.location.href.slice(window.location.href.indexOf('?') + 1).split('&');

  for(var i = 0; i < hashes.length; i++)
  {
   hash = hashes[i].split('=');
   vars.push(hash[0]);
   vars[hash[0]] = hash[1];
  }

  return vars;
 }