using anchors #value in URL, can I call and use this value in php?

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Can PHP read the hash portion of the URL?

Hi, I want to go to a part of my web page where a div called bla bla bla is located.

Using this: http://www.mysite.com/mypage#28 I get there.

But I also need that number to process in php. Does the # work like a ? ($_get) as well?

How do I do that otherwise?

Thanks

Yes it is. Thanks a lot to point it out. The other thread was very ] — Nicolas de Fontenay, Apr 10 '11 at 14:09
I should probably have had a better search before I answered this question, but no matter. :-) — John Parker, Apr 10 '11 at 14:11

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 10 '11 at 14:20

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I agree with middaparka, Hash values is a client side values can not be loaded from server side, as Facebook Dynamic Url Loading technique

so you can read it is value from a function, and call that function onload of page to do what you need.

answered Apr 10 '11 at 14:20

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John Parker · Answer 2 · 2011-04-10T14:05:38.323

In theory you can use the parse_url function to obtain this, via the PHP_URL_FRAGMENT option. However, in practice I'm pretty sure that there's no guarantee that the browser will pass this information to the server. (i.e.: It won't show up in $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], so there's no way to pass this information into parse_url in the first place.)

As such, you'd need to obtain this client-side via JavaScript and forward it to the server. To do this you can use window.location.hash.

e.g.: <script>alert('The hash value is: '+window.location.hash);</script>

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 10 '11 at 14:21

There is JQuery Plugin "hashchange" using that you can send Ajax request when the hash is changed everytime. You can even bookmark it. http://benalman.com/projects/jquery-hashchange-plugin/

Check out the demo at http://benalman.com/code/projects/jquery-hashchange/examples/hashchange/

using anchors #value in URL, can I call and use this value in php?

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