Finding value after the # in a URL

Hi all,

I'm working on an AJAX site, and I'm using Dojo and Mootools (both
Javascript) to provide some interactivity.  Dojo has a back button fix, but
it requires the use of of a string added onto a URL (I.e.
www.site.com/pages/ becomes www.site.com/pages/#page1).  I want to harness
this function to allow you to go back to the page you were on.  Since AJAX
does not reload a page, a PHP script would only be called when someone did
something to reload the page, such as hitting the back button.  I have tried
a few different $_SERVER variables, but none will give me the "#page1", only
the URL up until that point.  Can anyone think of a way to grab the entire
URL, with the # modifiers?

Thanks in advance,
Matt White

On Mar 24, 4:22 pm, "Matthew White" <mgw...@msn.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm working on an AJAX site, and I'm using Dojo and Mootools (both
> Javascript) to provide some interactivity.  Dojo has a back button fix, bu
t
> it requires the use of of a string added onto a URL (I.e.www.site.com/pages/beco
mesw...om/pages/#page1).  I want to harness
> this function to allow you to go back to the page you were on.  Since AJAX
> does not reload a page, a PHP script would only be called when someone did
> something to reload the page, such as hitting the back button.  I have tri
ed
> a few different $_SERVER variables, but none will give me the "#page1", on
ly
> the URL up until that point.  Can anyone think of a way to grab the entire
> URL, with the # modifiers?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Matt White

Matt,

Interesting problem.  I'm not sure if the #page1 gets stripped at
HTTP...but I am recreating the issue on my server as well....

Any way you can overload that method and change that page value to a
GET value?  Then your PHP will receive the value and act accordingly.

I would love to hear what your eventual solution is, though.

Regards,

Steve

The problem with a GET value will reload the page- something that I don't
want to do with an AJAX site.  Only a # value won't force a reload.

Matt

"ELINTPimp" <smsiebe@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Mar 24, 4:22 pm, "Matthew White" <mgw...@msn.com> wrote: 
>
> Matt,
>
> Interesting problem.  I'm not sure if the #page1 gets stripped at
> HTTP...but I am recreating the issue on my server as well....
>
> Any way you can overload that method and change that page value to a
> GET value?  Then your PHP will receive the value and act accordingly.
>
> I would love to hear what your eventual solution is, though.
>
> Regards,
>
> Steve

hi ,

using jquery to over come the problem for the particular instance

I'm sure jQuery is a decent framework, but I'm already using two (but both
are superior in their own ways), and a third just seems like it would be
awkward to implement, especially since it shares some of the same namespaces
with Mootools.  I'd like a way to implement this is one of the two
frameworks I'm already using, or in PHP.

Matt

"Damodhar" <damu.be@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> hi ,
>
> using jquery to over come the problem for the particular instance

Damodhar's comment made me think, and I whipped up a piece of JavaScript
that runs only one (when the page is loaded), and that seems to be
accurately giving me the data after the #.  Thanks for looking into the
problem anyways!

Matt

"Matthew White" <mgw854@msn.com> wrote in message
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> I'm sure jQuery is a decent framework, but I'm already using two (but both
> are superior in their own ways), and a third just seems like it would be
> awkward to implement, especially since it shares some of the same
> namespaces with Mootools.  I'd like a way to implement this is one of the
> two frameworks I'm already using, or in PHP.
>
> Matt
>
> "Damodhar" <damu.be@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:86051e11-e7d3-4fbf-97f4-c9f75ca47000@i29g2000prf.googlegroups.com... 
>

ELINTPimp wrote:
> On Mar 24, 4:22 pm, "Matthew White" <mgw...@msn.com> wrote: 
>
> Matt,
>
> Interesting problem.  I'm not sure if the #page1 gets stripped at
> HTTP...but I am recreating the issue on my server as well....

The #page1 won't be sent to the web server, it's just something that the
browser uses internally

The request (seen in the url field)
www.site.com/pages/becomeswww.site.com/pages/#page1

is sent as
www.site.com/pages/becomeswww.site.com/pages/



--

//Aho

..oO(Matthew White)

>I'm working on an AJAX site, and I'm using Dojo and Mootools (both
>Javascript) to provide some interactivity.  Dojo has a back button fix, but
>it requires the use of of a string added onto a URL (I.e.
>www.site.com/pages/ becomes www.site.com/pages/#page1).  I want to harness
>this function to allow you to go back to the page you were on.  Since AJAX
>does not reload a page, a PHP script would only be called when someone did
>something to reload the page, such as hitting the back button.  I have trie
d
>a few different $_SERVER variables, but none will give me the "#page1", onl
y
>the URL up until that point.  Can anyone think of a way to grab the entire
>URL, with the # modifiers?

The fragment identifier is not part of the URI. The server will never
see it.

Micha