Removing anchor (#hash) from URL

Question

Is there any reliable way in PHP to clean a URL of anchor tags?

So input:

http://site.com/some/#anchor

Outputs:

http://site.com/some/

Answer 1

There is also one other option with parse_url();

$str = 'http://site.com/some/#anchor';
$arr = parse_url($str);
echo $arr['scheme'].'://'.$arr['host'].$arr['path'];

Output:

http://site.com/some/