Question

From what I have been able to understand, hash marks (#) aren’t sent to the server, so it doesn’t seem likely that I will be able to use raw PHP to parse data like in the URL below:

index.php?name=Ben&address=101 S 10th St Suite #301

I’m looking to pre-populate form fields with this $_GET data. How would I do this with Javascript (or jQuery), and is there a fallback that wouldn’t break my form for people not using Javascript? Currently if there is a hash (usually in the address field), everything after that is not parsed in or stored in $_GET.

Answer 1

You can encode the hash as you should urlencode(in php) or encodeURIComponent(in JavaScript).

The “hash” is not part of the request, which is why your script never sees it.