Get content of URL after #

Tim Tyler

A simple question:

If my PHP page is referenced thus: foo.php#bar

....what's the best way of getting the contents of the URL
after the hash - as a string ("bar")?

Should I get the URL, look for the "#" and then use
substring()?

I'd prefer something like:

$H = $_GET['#']; // reaching...
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Jul 17 '05 #1

Andy Hassall

On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 19:42:20 GMT, Tim Tyler <ti*@tt1lock.org> wrote:

A simple question:

If my PHP page is referenced thus: foo.php#bar

...what's the best way of getting the contents of the URL
after the hash - as a string ("bar")?

Should I get the URL, look for the "#" and then use
substring()?

I'd prefer something like:

$H = $_GET['#']; // reaching...

You can't; it's not passed to the server.

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Jul 17 '05 #2

Tim Tyler

Andy Hassall <an**@andyh.co.uk> wrote or quoted:

On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 19:42:20 GMT, Tim Tyler <ti*@tt1lock.org> wrote:

A simple question:

If my PHP page is referenced thus: foo.php#bar

...what's the best way of getting the contents of the URL
after the hash - as a string ("bar")? [...]

You can't; it's not passed to the server.

So it isn't ;-)

On reflection, $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; gives me close enough to
what I am after. Thanks for the "#" advice.
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Jul 17 '05 #3

Craig Keightley

There is a javascript method that can get the #value

using location.hash.slice(1)

Jul 17 '05 #4

BKDotCom

try parse_url();
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.parse-url.php

Tim Tyler <ti*@tt1lock.org> wrote in message news:<HM********@bath.ac.uk>...

A simple question:

If my PHP page is referenced thus: foo.php#bar

...what's the best way of getting the contents of the URL
after the hash - as a string ("bar")?

Should I get the URL, look for the "#" and then use
substring()?

I'd prefer something like:

$H = $_GET['#']; // reaching...

Jul 17 '05 #5