Began adding support for passing parameters via the URL and removed a location redirect that was no longer needed

static/js/pad2.js

@@ -20,18 +20,9 @@ var socket;
 
 $(document).ready(function()
 {
-  //test if the url is proper, means without any ? or # that doesn't belong to a url
-  //if it isn't proper, clean the url a do a redirect
-  var padId = document.location.pathname.substring(document.location.pathname.lastIndexOf("/") + 1);  
-  var expectedURL = document.location.href.substring(0,document.location.href.lastIndexOf("/") ) + "/" + padId;
-  if(expectedURL != document.location.href)
-  {
-    document.location = expectedURL;
-  }
-
   //start the costum js
   if(typeof costumStart == "function") costumStart();
-
+  getParams();
   handshake();
 });
 
@@ -78,6 +69,42 @@ function randomString()
   return "t." + randomstring;
 }
 
+function getParams()
+{
+  var showControls = getUrlVars()["showControls"];
+  var showChat = getUrlVars()["showChat"];
+  var userName = getUrlVars()["userName"];
+  if(showControls)
+  {
+    if(showControls == "false")
+    { 
+      $('#editbar').hide();
+      $('#editorcontainer').css({"top":"0px"});
+    }
+  }
+
+  if(showChat)
+  {
+    if(showChat == "false"){$('#chaticon').hide();}
+
+//cake
+  }
+
+}
+
+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;
+}
+
 function handshake()
 {
   var loc = document.location;
@@ -95,7 +122,6 @@ function handshake()
   socket.once('connect', function()
   {
     var padId = document.location.pathname.substring(document.location.pathname.lastIndexOf("/") + 1);
-    
     document.title = document.title + " | " + padId;
 
     var token = readCookie("token");