Ignored anchors in the url query?

[knoak]

Hi there,

I have a guestbook on my site, and it gets opened
in a frame. Every message in the page has it's own
anchor according to the message-number.

Now i've made this thing that i can request the url
in the frame by calling the frameset (index.php)
like this --> index.php?interactive/guestbook/
I detect it with $_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"]

But when i want to call a certain message of the GB,
e.g. message 119, index.php?interactive/guestbook/index.php#119
it doesn't work. the $_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"] seems to
completely ignore the '#' character and anything behind it.

Can it be solved and how?

Thanks a lot!

Greetings Knoak

[Janwillem Borleffs]

knoak wrote:

But when i want to call a certain message of the GB,
e.g. message 119, index.php?interactive/guestbook/index.php#119
it doesn't work. the $_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"] seems to
completely ignore the '#' character and anything behind it.

That's because anchors have no meaning regarding the retrieval of a page on
a server and are parsed by the browser only.

You can solve this by using another character to identify the anchor and
write a piece of javascript to jump to the desired anchor:

<?

if (isset($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])) {
// Location of the page
$location = strtok($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'], ";");

// Generate a piece of script to jump to the desired anchor
if ($anchor = strtok(";")) {
print "<script>";
print "window.onload = function () { location = '$location#$anchor'; }";
print "</script>";
}
}

?>
<a href="index.php?interactive/guestbook/index.php;119">klik</a>
<?

for ($i = 0; $i < 500; $i++) print "<br />\n";

?>
<a name="119">Hello</a>
JW