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

Alternative way

$url = 'http://site.com/some/#anchor';
echo str_replace('#'.parse_url($url,PHP_URL_FRAGMENT),'',$url);