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I am trying to find a way to save the hash portion of a url and as a PHP variable. This idea is a bit kooky, but bear with me...

I'd like to extract the "location" fragment from the following URL and save it as a PHP variable.

http://www.example.com/#location

However, discussion at this link indicates that the fragment of a URL is only reachable through JavaScript.

But would it be possible to create a link where the fragment is duplicated in the URL, parsed by PHP, and then removed by mod rewrite? So....

Original url:

http://www.example.com/location/#location

PHP gets location variable thanks to the plain "location" in the URL

Apache then rewrites the link to:

http://www.example.com/#location

I'm curious to know if there is an elegant way to solve this problem.

A: 

you could send hash fragment via AJAX to PHP script and do an immediate refresh (reload of the page)

dusoft
+2  A: 

The Fragment is never sent to the server, according to this thread on the Mod_Rewrite forums. So, this might be impossible unless you use AJAX to change the page after the fact.

Another idea would be to have Javascript turn the hash into a $_GET paramater, and then refresh the page.

Chacha102
Thanks for the replies!I know the fragment is never sent to the server. What I'm proposing is a "pseudo fragment" or "double fragment" like http://www.example.com/fragment/#fragmentThe first fragment would be interpreted by PHP, and then removed by mod_rewrite, rendering the URL as http://www.example.com/#fragmentMaybe this approach makes no sense; I'm not sure if it does, hence my question...
mikey_w
If you want to send the person back to example.com/#fragment, you would send them to example.com/fragement and then PHP could forward them to example.com/#fragement.
Chacha102
Great idea to forward the user from "example.com/fragment" to "example.com/#fragment". I will use a cookie to save the fragment, then forward the page to itself. Something like this might work:Example:link: http://www.example.com/test.php?fragment=turkey$fragment = $_GET['fragment'];if (isset($fragment)) {setcookie("TestCookie", "TestCookie", time()+3600);header("Location: http://www.example.com/test.php/#$fragment");}// do additional stuff based on cookie
mikey_w
+2  A: 

You'll need to use Javascript to read this. There are a few different options - upon page load, you could use an XmlHTTPRequest (AJAX request) to tell the server what the additional URL parameters were. Alternatley you could check to see if there are additional parameters (also via Javascript), and if you find any, post back to a different URL that has these parameters encoded into the URL itself.

pix0r
A: 

Once you have send the values to server via AJAX. You can set the fragment values in SESSION. When you refresh the page, you can get the fragment which was set in session and process then display the corresponding content. Because we can't get get the fragment values through PHP_SELF / QUERY_STRING and etc. We need this to increase the speed of our web page like Gmail.

Jerald