PHP & Hash / Fragment Portion of URL

Question

I am trying to find a way to save the hash portion of a url and as a PHP variable. This idea is a bit kooky, but bear with me...

I\'d like to extract the \"location

Answer 1

Once you have send the values to server via AJAX. You can set the fragment values in SESSION. When you refresh the page, you can get the fragment which was set in session and process then display the corresponding content. Because we can't get get the fragment values through PHP_SELF / QUERY_STRING and etc. We need this to increase the speed of our web page like Gmail.

Answer 2

The Fragment is never sent to the server, according to this thread on the Mod_Rewrite forums. So, this might be impossible unless you use AJAX to change the page after the fact.

Another idea would be to have Javascript turn the hash into a $_GET paramater, and then refresh the page.

Answer 3

you could send hash fragment via AJAX to PHP script and do an immediate refresh (reload of the page)

Answer 4

You'll need to use Javascript to read this. There are a few different options - upon page load, you could use an XmlHTTPRequest (AJAX request) to tell the server what the additional URL parameters were. Alternatley you could check to see if there are additional parameters (also via Javascript), and if you find any, post back to a different URL that has these parameters encoded into the URL itself.

Answer 5

It's contained in the "fragment" value returned from PHP's parse_url function.

From PHP manual:

<?php
$url = 'http://username:password@hostname/path?arg=value#anchor';

print_r(parse_url($url));

echo parse_url($url, PHP_URL_PATH);
?>

Will return:

Array
(
    [scheme] => http
    [host] => hostname
    [user] => username
    [pass] => password
    [path] => /path
    [query] => arg=value
    [fragment] => anchor
)
/path