[wp-hackers] Ignore Portions of URI

[Dougal Campbell]

Otto wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 7:02 AM, scribu <scribu at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Using #123/5 would be better because ALL search engines ignore that bit.
>>     
>
> So do servers, since browsers don't send #links to the server. No way
> to get that information from inside the PHP code.
>   

There is if you use a dash of AJAX :)

I've used that technique on projects before. Use the hash portion of the 
URL to store state data, and use Javascript to communicate it back and 
forth between browser and server.

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