Php to get value of hash from URL

Question

How can I get a variable of a hash in php.

I have a variable on page like this

catalog.php#album=2song=1

How can i get the album and song values and put them into PHP variables?

possible duplicate of [Can PHP read the hash portion of the URL?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/940905/can-php-read-the-hash-portion-of-the-url) — Paul Alexander, Dec 07 '11 at 18:00

score 9 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 02 '10 at 23:15

You can't get this value with PHP because PHP processes things server-side, and the hash in the URL is client-side only and never gets sent to the server. JavaScript can get the hash though, using window.location.hash (and optionally call on a PHP script including this information, or add the data to the DOM).

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 13 '13 at 20:25

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Just adding onto @Alec's answer.

There is a parse_url() function:

Which can return fragment - after the hashmark #. However, in your case it will return all values after the hashmark:

Array
(
    [path] => catalog.php
    [fragment] => album=2song=1
)

As @NullUserException pointed out, unless you have the url beforehand this really is pointless. But, I feel its good to know nonetheless.

edited Feb 13 '13 at 20:25

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answered Oct 02 '10 at 23:24

Russell Dias

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Unless you have the URL beforehand, this is useless. – NullUserException Oct 02 '10 at 23:35
Thank you. Sounds like I could work this idea into what I need. – Andelas Oct 02 '10 at 23:42

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Apr 26 '14 at 16:37

You can use AJAX/PHP for this. You can get the hash with javaScript and load some contents with PHP. Let's suppose we're loading the main content of a page, so our URL with hash is "http://www.example.com/#main":

JavaScript in our head:

 function getContentByHashName(hash) { // "main"
    // some very simplified AJAX (in this example with jQuery)
    $.ajax({
      url: '/ajax/get_content.php?content='+hash, // "main"
      success: function(content){
        $('div#container').html(content); // will put "Welcome to our Main Page" into the <div> with id="container"
      }
    });
 }

 var hash=parent.location.hash; // #main
 hash=hash.substring(1,hash.length); // take out the #

 getContentByHashName(hash);

The PHP could have something like:

<?php
// very unsafe and silly code

$content_hash_name = $_GET['content'];

if($content_hash_name == 'main'):
  echo "Welcome to our Main Page";
endif;

?>

Php to get value of hash from URL

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