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Mankind1023
Mankind1023

Reputation: 7732

php how to read URL including # and / symbols

I have a website with a database of part numbers. My manager wants to be able to type:

www.site.com/products/part#

and have thepage automatically take you to the relevant page.

Right now I have it take the URL and mod-rewrite the page to:

www.site.com/search.php?sku=xxxx

And a php srcript will $_GET the sku and do the search, problem is, some part numbers have # and / symbols in them, eg:

www.site.com/products/VS816UT#ABA

I can get around any slashes with mod-rewrite, but the browsers strips the # symbol before the $_GET can see it.

Is there a way around that?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 173

Answers (3)

Mouse Food
Mouse Food

Reputation: 231

There should be no trouble doing it, but what you want is a handler for /products/ that gets the trailing part of the url (frameworks like codeigniter are good at that).

You need a single page handler that dispatches based on as much (or as little) of the url as you need.

Unfortunately, at least some browsers strip the # and everything after it. I did a test using a url with a# and monitored what the browser sent with tcpdump and got this:

Url:

http://127.0.0.1/onepage/products/zss#www?b=A#B

tcpdump o/p:

GET /onepage/products/zss

Presumably, server-to-server is the only way this can work.

Upvotes: 0

Blender
Blender

Reputation: 298106

Anything past the hash (the #) isn't sent to the webserver.

If you want to get around this, why not append the #ABA with a slash:

www.site.com/products/VS816UT/ABA

And use mod_rewrite to properly map it to your PHP file.

Upvotes: 3

user1074324
user1074324

Reputation:

the # symbol is reserved for anchor tags inside browsers, in accordance with web standards.

Upvotes: 1

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