Helper to transform a string with url parameters into a matching key-value object. ?thing=a&stuff=b will result in params being set to {thing:a,stuff:b}

url-params-to-object-parser.js

urlParams = "?thing=a&stuff=b";

var params = {};
//Match anything that has a sequence of word characters an equalsign until next block denoted by ? or &
urlParams = urlParams.match(/[\w]+\=[^\?\&]+/g);

angular.forEach(urlParams, function (match) {
	var data = match.split('=');
	var key = data[0], value = data[1];
	params[key]=value;
});