Can I read the hash portion of the URL on my server-side application (PHP, Ruby, Python, etc.)?

Question

Assuming a URL of:

www.example.com/?val=1#part2

PHP can read the request variables val1 using the GET array.

Is the ha

Answer 1

It is retrievable from Javascript - as window.location.hash. From there you could send it to the server with Ajax for example, or encode it and put it into URLs which can then be passed through to the server-side.

Answer 2

The main problem is that the browser won't even send a request with a fragment part. The fragment part is resolved right there in the browser. So it's reachable through JavaScript.

Anyway, you could parse a URL into bits, including the fragment part, using parse_url(), but it's obviously not your case.

Answer 3

<?php
$url=parse_url("http://domain.com/site/gallery/1?user=12#photo45 ");
echo $url["fragment"]; //This variable contains the fragment
?>

This is should work

Answer 4

I think the hash-value is only used client-side, so you can't get it with php.

you could redirect it with javascript to php though.

Answer 5

Th part of an URI after the # is called "fragment" and is by definition only available/processed on client side (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragment_identifier).

On the client side, this can be accessed using javaScript with window.location.hash.

Answer 6

Another solution is to add a hidden input field to the php page:

<input type="hidden" id="myHiddenLocationHash" name="myHiddenLocationHash" value="">

Using javascript/jQuery you can set the value of this field on the page load or responding to an event :

$('#myHiddenLocationHash').val(document.location.hash.replace('#',''));

In php on the server side you can read this value using the $_POST collection:

$server_location_hash = $_POST['myHiddenLocationHash'];