access # part of the URL via PHP

Question

Say I have this url.

http://mydomain.local/category/12/garden#31/decking-treatment

Can the part after the # i.e 31/decking-treatment be retrieved on serverside?

I checked in the $_SERVER and $_REQUEST superglobals but it is not there.

Thanks

Regards Gabriel

use it to know what should be rendered. The hash is added via javascript after an ajax call. — Gabriel Spiteri, Jul 22 '11 at 11:41
So basically when you update the page with AJAX you are trying to reflect the update in the URI? — afuzzyllama, Jul 22 '11 at 11:43
possible duplicate of [How to obtain anchor part of URL after # in php](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1032242/how-to-obtain-anchor-part-of-url-after-in-php) — Shakti Singh, Jul 22 '11 at 11:54

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 22 '11 at 11:32

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Can the part after the # i.e 31/decking-treatment be retrieved on serverside?

No. It is handled client side and never sent to the server. That is why using it for JS based history instead of pushState is a bad idea.

answered Jul 22 '11 at 11:32

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Matt Seymour · Answer 2 · 2011-07-22T12:01:42.337

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No, everything after the # is only ever used client side and will not hit the server. If you were to encode the # character before pushing it to the server then you might be able to do something but it would be a little long winded. What is it you are trying to acheive overall?

edited Jul 22 '11 at 12:01

answered Jul 22 '11 at 11:36

Matt Seymour

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Basically I have an ajax based menu. User clicks on an item of the menu and a div gets refreshed. Onclick .. I added the hash part to the url. Reason being that if the user shares the link with someone. I want the other person to see the same information. – Gabriel Spiteri Jul 22 '11 at 11:40

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 22 '11 at 12:07

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This is how I sort it:

function reloadPage()
    {
        var hash = location.hash;
        if (hash){
            hash = hash.replace('#', '');
            location.href = hash;
        }
    }

reloadPage();

include this in your js file.

answered Jul 22 '11 at 12:07

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access # part of the URL via PHP

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