Get parameters from URL with PHP or jQuery/javascript

Question

I have a url and its not a string. Its in the browser's address bar

http://localhost/sample/?post_id2#access_key=1654040333

How can I get access_key parameter that is starting with #?

I have tried to use $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] and $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] and $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] but in vein.

Can anyone help me out?

If it's in the url use the superglobal $_GET: $_GET['post_id']; — ka_lin, Jul 28 '16 at 16:14
The access_key can't because it is interpreted by the browser to scroll to that specific html element by id — ka_lin, Jul 28 '16 at 16:14
that url is in a string? or that's the url that's running the script you want to extract the data in? — Marc B, Jul 28 '16 at 16:15
What about the `access_key` it is starting with `#` can I get it with `$_GET`? — Omer, Jul 28 '16 at 16:15
values after # is client side not server-side, see dup post http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2317508/get-fragment-value-after-hash-from-a-url-in-php — jasonlam604, Jul 28 '16 at 16:34

Marcin Orlowski · Answer 1 · 2016-07-29T06:10:25.353

post_id2#access_key=1654040333

access_key is not regular query parameter you'd obtain using i.e.$_GET. It's webpage anchor reference used (by design by browsers, but nowadays also by JS frameworks etc). You however are not fully lost as there's parse_url() function that can parse this for you. So:

$url = 'http://localhost/sample/?post_id2#access_key=1654040333';
var_dump(parse_url($url));

would return you the following array:

array(5) {
  ["scheme"]=>
  string(4) "http"
  ["host"]=>
  string(9) "localhost"
  ["path"]=>
  string(8) "/sample/"
  ["query"]=>
  string(8) "post_id2"
  ["fragment"]=>
  string(21) "access_key=1654040333"
}

so your access_key will be in fragment key, so you may process it further to get the value:

$parse_url_result = parse_url($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']);
if (array_key_exists('fragment', $parse_url_result)) {
   $tmp = explode('=', $parse_url_result['fragment']);
   $access_key = $tmp[1];
}

You have created the `url` in string. How can I make it as string since its in a browser's address bar — Omer, Jul 29 '16 at 06:07
Use `$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']`. See http://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.server.php. Check edited answer too — Marcin Orlowski, Jul 29 '16 at 06:15

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 29 '16 at 07:36

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Try parsing the url through javascript

alert(window.location.hash);

answered Jul 29 '16 at 07:36

FaISalBLiNK

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 29 '16 at 06:13

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You can use parse_url to get the required results.

$url = "http://localhost/sample/?post_id2#access_key=1654040333";
var_dump(parse_url($url, PHP_URL_FRAGMENT));

answered Jul 29 '16 at 06:13

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Get parameters from URL with PHP or jQuery/javascript

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