Finding value after the # in a URL

[Matthew White]

Hi all,

I'm working on an AJAX site, and I'm using Dojo and Mootools (both
Javascript) to provide some interactivity. Dojo has a back button fix, but
it requires the use of of a string added onto a URL (I.e.
www.site.com/pages/ becomes www.site.com/pages/#page1). I want to harness
this function to allow you to go back to the page you were on. Since AJAX
does not reload a page, a PHP script would only be called when someone did
something to reload the page, such as hitting the back button. I have tried
a few different $_SERVER variables, but none will give me the "#page1", only
the URL up until that point. Can anyone think of a way to grab the entire
URL, with the # modifiers?

Thanks in advance,
Matt White

[ELINTPimp]

On Mar 24, 4:22 pm, "Matthew White" <[e-mail]:

Hi all,

I'm working on an AJAX site, and I'm using Dojo and Mootools (both
Javascript) to provide some interactivity. Dojo has a back button fix, but
it requires the use of of a string added onto a URL (I.e.http://www.site.com/pages/becomeswww.../pages/#page1). I want to harness
this function to allow you to go back to the page you were on. Since AJAX
does not reload a page, a PHP script would only be called when someone did
something to reload the page, such as hitting the back button. I have tried
a few different $_SERVER variables, but none will give me the "#page1", only
the URL up until that point. Can anyone think of a way to grab the entire
URL, with the # modifiers?

Thanks in advance,
Matt White

Matt,

Interesting problem. I'm not sure if the #page1 gets stripped at
HTTP...but I am recreating the issue on my server as well....

Any way you can overload that method and change that page value to a
GET value? Then your PHP will receive the value and act accordingly.

I would love to hear what your eventual solution is, though.

Regards,

Steve

[Matthew White]

The problem with a GET value will reload the page- something that I don't
want to do with an AJAX site. Only a # value won't force a reload.

Matt

"ELINTPimp" <sm*****@gmail.comwrote in message
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On Mar 24, 4:22 pm, "Matthew White" <[e-mail]:

>Hi all,

I'm working on an AJAX site, and I'm using Dojo and Mootools (both
Javascript) to provide some interactivity. Dojo has a back button fix,
but
it requires the use of of a string added onto a URL
(I.e.http://www.site.com/pages/becomeswww.../pages/#page1). I want to
harness
this function to allow you to go back to the page you were on. Since
AJAX
does not reload a page, a PHP script would only be called when someone
did
something to reload the page, such as hitting the back button. I have
tried
a few different $_SERVER variables, but none will give me the "#page1",
only
the URL up until that point. Can anyone think of a way to grab the
entire
URL, with the # modifiers?

Thanks in advance,
Matt White

Matt,

Interesting problem. I'm not sure if the #page1 gets stripped at
HTTP...but I am recreating the issue on my server as well....

Any way you can overload that method and change that page value to a
GET value? Then your PHP will receive the value and act accordingly.

I would love to hear what your eventual solution is, though.

Regards,

Steve

[Damodhar]

hi ,

using jquery to over come the problem for the particular instance

[Matthew White]

I'm sure jQuery is a decent framework, but I'm already using two (but both
are superior in their own ways), and a third just seems like it would be
awkward to implement, especially since it shares some of the same namespaces
with Mootools. I'd like a way to implement this is one of the two
frameworks I'm already using, or in PHP.

Matt

"Damodhar" <da*****@gmail.comwrote in message
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hi ,

using jquery to over come the problem for the particular instance

[Matthew White]

Damodhar's comment made me think, and I whipped up a piece of JavaScript
that runs only one (when the page is loaded), and that seems to be
accurately giving me the data after the #. Thanks for looking into the
problem anyways!

Matt

"Matthew White" <mg****@msn.comwrote in message
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I'm sure jQuery is a decent framework, but I'm already using two (but both
are superior in their own ways), and a third just seems like it would be
awkward to implement, especially since it shares some of the same
namespaces with Mootools. I'd like a way to implement this is one of the
two frameworks I'm already using, or in PHP.

Matt

"Damodhar" <da*****@gmail.comwrote in message
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>hi ,

using jquery to over come the problem for the particular instance

[J.O. Aho]

ELINTPimp wrote:

On Mar 24, 4:22 pm, "Matthew White" <[e-mail]:

>Hi all,

I'm working on an AJAX site, and I'm using Dojo and Mootools (both
Javascript) to provide some interactivity. Dojo has a back button fix, but
it requires the use of of a string added onto a URL (I.e.http://www.site.com/pages/becomeswww.../pages/#page1). I want to harness
this function to allow you to go back to the page you were on. Since AJAX
does not reload a page, a PHP script would only be called when someone did
something to reload the page, such as hitting the back button. I have tried
a few different $_SERVER variables, but none will give me the "#page1", only
the URL up until that point. Can anyone think of a way to grab the entire
URL, with the # modifiers?

Thanks in advance,
Matt White

Matt,

Interesting problem. I'm not sure if the #page1 gets stripped at
HTTP...but I am recreating the issue on my server as well....

The #page1 won't be sent to the web server, it's just something that the
browser uses internally

The request (seen in the url field)
http://www.site.com/pages/becomeswww...m/pages/#page1

is sent as
www.site.com/pages/becomeswww.site.com/pages/

--

//Aho

[Michael Fesser]

..oO(Matthew White)

>I'm working on an AJAX site, and I'm using Dojo and Mootools (both
Javascript) to provide some interactivity. Dojo has a back button fix, but
it requires the use of of a string added onto a URL (I.e.
www.site.com/pages/ becomes www.site.com/pages/#page1). I want to harness
this function to allow you to go back to the page you were on. Since AJAX
does not reload a page, a PHP script would only be called when someone did
something to reload the page, such as hitting the back button. I have tried
a few different $_SERVER variables, but none will give me the "#page1", only
the URL up until that point. Can anyone think of a way to grab the entire
URL, with the # modifiers?

The fragment identifier is not part of the URI. The server will never
see it.

Micha