Anything similar to "A NAME=" in PHP?

[Davka]

I'm migrating a bunch of pages from an older website into a PHP-based site, and some of them have numerous A NAME html tags, creating links to various spots in the body of the page, such as footnotes and whatnot. Is there any way to replace these with a similar marker in PHP, short of the obvious-but-tedious route of making each section into its own separate page?

In case you've never tried it, using an A NAME link on a PHP-driven site doesn't work. The hash mark in the address causes errors every time.

Thanks in advance.

[Tandem]

I have a page that does it just fine.

I do

<a href="#Misc">Miscellaneous<./a>

for the link and

<a name="Misc">Blah<./a>

for the part of the page i want it to go to. (minus the dots)

EDIT: it was a php page too (forgot to mention that)

[Jessica]

To correct your errors, we'd need to see your code to tell what you're doing wrong.

[Davka]

Perhaps I should elaborate. These pages are being pulled in as required pages inside a larger PHP container page.

IOW, "oldPage.html" is required by "newSite.PHP" and the browser address is "newSite.php?content=oldpage&navigation=blah"

This means that simply clicking on a link like A HREF="#foo" won't cut it, since there is no corresponding tag in newSite.php?content=oldpage&navigation=blah. And writing "newSite.php?content=oldpage.html#foo&navigation=blah" throws a real monkey wrench in the works..

[JasonLewis]

what if you put navigation first then content, because my site is set out sort of like that and i can still use the A NAME to get to certain things.

[Jessica]

clicking on an # link doesn't reload the page, it simply jumps down to the link, so the page doesn't get reloaded, and the url won't get messed up.