Get content of URL after #

A simple question:

If my PHP page is referenced thus: foo.php#bar

....what's the best way of getting the contents of the URL
after the hash - as a string ("bar")?

Should I get the URL, look for the "#" and then use
substring()?

I'd prefer something like:

$H = $_GET['#']; // reaching...
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On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 19:42:20 GMT, Tim Tyler <tim@tt1lock.org> wrote:

>A simple question:
>
>If my PHP page is referenced thus: foo.php#bar
>
>...what's the best way of getting the contents of the URL
>after the hash - as a string ("bar")?
>
>Should I get the URL, look for the "#" and then use
>substring()?
>
>I'd prefer something like:
>
>$H = $_GET['#']; // reaching...

You can't; it's not passed to the server.

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Andy Hassall <andy@andyh.co.uk> wrote or quoted:
> On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 19:42:20 GMT, Tim Tyler <tim@tt1lock.org> wrote:

>>A simple question:
>>
>>If my PHP page is referenced thus: foo.php#bar
>>
>>...what's the best way of getting the contents of the URL
>>after the hash - as a string ("bar")? [...]
>
> You can't; it's not passed to the server.

So it isn't ;-)

On reflection, $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; gives me close enough to
what I am after. Thanks for the "#" advice.
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There is a javascript method that can get the #value

using location.hash.slice(1)

try parse_url();
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.parse-url.php

Tim Tyler <tim@tt1lock.org> wrote in message news:<HMntEK.6ty@bath.ac.uk>...
> A simple question:
>
> If my PHP page is referenced thus: foo.php#bar
>
> ...what's the best way of getting the contents of the URL
> after the hash - as a string ("bar")?
>
> Should I get the URL, look for the "#" and then use
> substring()?
>
> I'd prefer something like:
>
> $H = $_GET['#']; // reaching...