Get Full URL with Hashtag

Hi Adam,

It looks like Current URL will do exactly what you are looking for.

Let me know what you think!

Cheers!

Thanks for your reply Dan,

I gave that plugin a try, but unfortunately it doesn’t pull the hashtag.

so http://domain.com/work#web only pulls http://domain.com/work

Ok,

I tested this with PHP enabled in the template:

echo $this->EE->input->server('REQUEST_URI');

Which gets the request URI from the server. It seems that the “#value” is not returned as part of the request. It is handled at the DOM level in the browser, so you are left with looking for a JavaScript solution.

Cheers,

Dan, thanks for going the extra mile.

My research led me to the same conclusion as yours. The anchor is only used on the client side.

Javascript it is!

I’ve been dealing with this issue also. My goal is to create a single user session environment that can be linked to each page, with dynamic meta data, social sharing and Google SEO crawls. What I found is that hash tag urls don’t allow this, no server side detection of the hash tag url. Noted above.

What I found was a html5 technique, that so far, is doing exactly what i needed. Rather than reading the url with jquery address, change the url using pushState.

var section_state = new Object();
var new_url = "/"+_url.data.url;
var new_title = "Site Name - "+_url.data.title;
 
history.pushState(section_state,new_title,new_url);  
var page_pathname = window . location . pathname;    
 
section_url = page_pathname.split("/")[1];   
subsection_url  = page_pathname.split("/")[2];

Granted, this solution has issues with older browsers. But, I foresee this as the way to go moving forward.

Reference: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/Manipulating_the_browser_history http://blog.new-bamboo.co.uk/2011/2/2/degradable-javascript-applications-using-html5-pushstate http://badassjs.com/post/840846392/location-hash-is-dead-long-live-html5-pushstate

454 Creative, all,

Since this has morphed into a rather nice discussion, I’ll move it into Development and Programming so new info can be added over time.

Thanks to you all for adding in your expertise.

Cheers,

The following link shows how to track pushState changes with Google Analytics.

http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gaJS/gaJSApiBasicConfiguration.html#gat.GA_Tracker._trackPageview

Dan, appreciate your efforts. My findings align with yours; the anchor is client-side. Looks like JavaScript is the way forward. Thanks for confirming!