How to get the value after the hash in "somepage.php#name"?

For a given url, I want to get the name-after-hash's age from the database. so for url like thepage.php#Madonna, you'll see "119!".

How can I extract the value after the hash in a url? (i need a safe all-browser-compatible-NON-JAVASCRIPT way). I want to do that like $_GET['after hash'].

The reason I'm not using GET is because I want to use AJAX and jquery's history plugin.

Basically what i want is to use ajax to retrieve data from the server according to the value assigned after the hash.

Solution 1:

I don't think it's possible. The string after # is interpreted by the browser as an anchor name within the current page. It is not passed to the server.

Solution 2:

Javascript

window.location.hash will give you this value. You can then pass it (via AJAX) to the server for results.

PHP

Check the Fragment of parse_url();

Return Values

On seriously malformed URLs, parse_url() may return FALSE and emit a E_WARNING. Otherwise an associative array is returned, whose components may be (at least one):

• scheme - e.g. http
• host
• port
• user
• pass
• path
• query - after the question mark ?
• fragment - after the hashmark #