How to catch #

[elck]

Interesting problem?
$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] returns all variables, but never the # position in the file, as in:

http://index.php?page=1&sub=6#SUBJECT

I cannot find a global variable that does return it either.
Any suggestions?

 

[Tarwn]

The parse_url function would probably be kind of handy for this:

//grab the URI
$url = $_SERVER['SCRIPT_URI'];
//parse it
$parsed = parse_url($url);
//parse_url returns an associative array, with the portion after the hashmark stored as 'fragment'
$target_section = $parsed['fragment'];

There might be a better way, I'm not an expert by any means.
-T

 

[elck]

Parsing the URI is not the problem,
but grabbing it is.
I cannot find a way to get the url string containing the # part.

 

[sleipnir214]

It seems reasonable to me that the browser would not send that to the server. That information is of use only to the browser.

Looking at my server logs, I see that none of Opera 9, IE 6 or FireFox actually transmits the data to the server.



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[elck]

That explains it.
It's a pitty as I wanted to use the info for unfolding the proper submenus.

Thanks Sleipnir

 

[sleipnir214]

If you need that information, you're going to have to add it to your URLs:

http://index.php?page=1&sub=6

[red]&submenu=999[/red]#SUBJECT



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[elck]

Yep, clear