Php to get value of hash from URL

Question

How can I get a variable of a hash in php.

I have a variable on page like this

catalog.php#album=2song=1

How can i get the album an

Answer 1

You can use AJAX/PHP for this. You can get the hash with javaScript and load some contents with PHP. Let's suppose we're loading the main content of a page, so our URL with hash is "http://www.example.com/#main":

JavaScript in our head:

 function getContentByHashName(hash) { // "main"
    // some very simplified AJAX (in this example with jQuery)
    $.ajax({
      url: '/ajax/get_content.php?content='+hash, // "main"
      success: function(content){
        $('div#container').html(content); // will put "Welcome to our Main Page" into the 
 with id="container"
      }
    });
 }

 var hash=parent.location.hash; // #main
 hash=hash.substring(1,hash.length); // take out the #

 getContentByHashName(hash);

The PHP could have something like: