how to capture the current page url in PHP

Question

I want to get the current page URL with parameters in PHP

the URL is

http://localhost/omni/abc.php#def=S6ZT4b9MEsFGDzo

I want to get the url part after the # sign

Refer to this post: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/940905/can-php-read-the-hash-portion-of-the-url — Tiksi, May 30 '12 at 12:38

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered May 30 '12 at 12:40

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Anything after the # in a URL is only handled on the client-side. It is not even passed to the request to the server, so there is no way you can directly access it.

answered May 30 '12 at 12:40

ziad-saab

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I looked long an hard for this a long time ago and found the same answer. I haven't tried it, but the OP might try an ajax function that calls a php script and deals with it that way, but depending on what the OP actually wants to do, this feels clumsy even as I suggest it. – TecBrat May 30 '12 at 12:51
Yes. Not only is it clumsy, but it will not be accessible by the page that is being loaded, only by a secondary AJAX request. – ziad-saab May 30 '12 at 12:55

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 30 '12 at 12:41

Found this little niblet while researching the issue...

http://www.stoimen.com/blog/2009/04/15/read-the-anchor-part-of-the-url-with-php/

<script>

var query = location.href.split('#');

document.cookies = 'anchor=' + query[1];

<?php if (!$_COOKIE['anchor']) : ?>

window.location.reload();

<?php endif; ?>

<?php

echo $_COOKIE['anchor'];

?>

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 30 '12 at 12:44

From this URL: http://localhost/omni/abc.php?def=S6ZT4b9MEsFGDzo

$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] -> localhost
$_SERVER['SCRIPT_URL'] -> omni/abc.php
$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] -> def=S6ZT4b9MEsFGDzo

OR

$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] -> omni/abc.php?def=S6ZT4b9MEsFGDzo

OR

$_SERVER['SCRIPT_URI'] -> http://localhost/omni/abc.php

how to capture the current page url in PHP

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