PHP Urls & Anchor Points

[holowugz]

Ok i was told by a friend that in an URL in PHP EG:

[a href=\"http://www.test.com/cheese.php?id=500#user\" target=\"_blank\"]http://www.test.com/cheese.php?id=500#user[/a]

that only 500 would be passed through and that user would be considered as an anchor point,

is that true and what if i actually wanted a # passed through?

[wildteen88]

No that is not true. What will happen is php will create the variable $_GET['id'] or just $id (if register_globals is on) and assign the value of 500 to it. It is not used as anchor point, where as the #user is.

[holowugz]

so if the page i was directing it to had an anchor point called user, halfway down the page it would load at that anchor point?

[wildteen88]

Yeah. The id=500 bit is replating to PHP. The browser wont know what id=500 even means, however it will know what to do with #user though.

[toplay]

FYI:

The "user" will be in:

$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']

and you can parse it out with the parse_url().


[a href=\"http://us3.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.php\" target=\"_blank\"]http://us3.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.php[/a]

[a href=\"http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.parse-url.php\" target=\"_blank\"]http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.parse-url.php[/a]