How to find "#" symbol in a String (URL)

[preetham]

Hi,

 

Both my previous questions were perfectly solved here.

Hoping the same this time.

 

 

Problem :How to find "#" symbol in a String (URL)

 

example : URL = http://www.myntra.com/sales?nav_id=1#!sortby=PRICEA

 

In above link, there is a "#" symbol used, however in code, when i do

 

echo strpos("www.myntra.com/sales?nav_id=1#!sortby=PRICEA","#");

 

I don't get any value at all.

 

How can i find the pos of "#" in url

 

 

Thanks in advance. 

 

 

 

 

[Harlequin]

I had a similar issue in which I needed to grab a part of a string from within a much longer string that changed but the start and end of the string would always remain the same so I used this:

http://php.net/manual/en/function.strtok.php

[kicken]

echo strpos("www.myntra.com/sales?nav_id=1#!sortby=PRICEA","#");

outputs: 29

 

So your example works perfectly fine.

 

Going on an assumption that you are trying to identify the # in the current url (ie, $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) then your problem is that the hash portion of the URL (the # and everything after it) is not sent to the server as it's strictly for client-side use. When the above example is requested the actual request made to the server is only for /sales?nav_id=1 and then once the page is loaded the browser interprets the #!sortby=PRICEA portion.

[preetham]

 

 

 

 

Hello,

 

I'm sorry.

 

Actually, I didn't give complete info.

 

 

This how i actually do it.

I send this link as parameter to my file.

 

http://www.myntra.com/sales?nav_id=1#!sortby=PRICEA

 

 

<?php

$mylink = $_GET["link"];

 

if( stripos($mylink,"Myntra.com")>0)

 

{

 

echo strpos($mylink,"#");

}

 

?>

 

 

It doesn't work in this case.

[kicken]

Works fine for me, so either you're still leaving out some information, or you fixed it during posting. var_dump your $mylink variable to make sure it contains what you expect. Make sure you are not making any typos such as a case-mismatch ($mylink vs $myLink for example).

[preetham]

Works fine for me, so either you're still leaving out some information, or you fixed it during posting. var_dump your $mylink variable to make sure it contains what you expect. Make sure you are not making any typos such as a case-mismatch ($mylink vs $myLink for example).

 

No Typo.

 

Did you try this code?

 

 

<?php

$mylink = $_GET["link"];

 

if( stripos($mylink,"Myntra.com")>0)

 

{

 

echo strpos($mylink,"#");

}

 

?>

 

 

 

 

Bwowser treat "#" differently , this is a know issue.

 

Try this

 

echo (urlencode($mylink));

 

And when you check output, get this

 

http%3A%2F%2Fwww.myntra.com%2Fsales%3Fnav_id%3D1

 

 

# and everything after that is ignored .

Edited August 3, 2013 by preetham

[kicken]

kicken@web1:~$ php
<?php
$mylink = 'http://www.myntra.com/sales?nav_id=1#!sortby=PRICEA';

echo urlencode($mylink);
?>

http%3A%2F%2Fwww.myntra.com%2Fsales%3Fnav_id%3D1%23%21sortby%3DPRICEA

The # is still there, it's just been encoded as %23. As I said, var_dump your variable to verify what it actually contains. If the # and everything after it are infact missing, then you need to revisit my first point:

...your problem is that the hash portion of the URL (the # and everything after it) is not sent to the server as it's strictly for client-side use

Make sure you urlencode() your values before putting them into a link or header redirect so that special characters such as # are not mis-interpreted.

Edited August 3, 2013 by kicken

[preetham]

kicken@web1:~$ php
<?php
$mylink = 'http://www.myntra.com/sales?nav_id=1#!sortby=PRICEA';

echo urlencode($mylink);
?>

http%3A%2F%2Fwww.myntra.com%2Fsales%3Fnav_id%3D1%23%21sortby%3DPRICEA

 

 

I'm not hard coding the link it comes from _GET, so like you said in first post, everything after # is ignored.

 

I wanted to get that.