Named Anchors won't pass if I pass 2 PHP variables

brett

Hi,
Anyone have any idea why I can't pass a named anchor when I pass two or more php variables in a url string?

example

http://somedomain.com/text.php?what=3&num=4#search

It will work if I only pass one variable, but after that its hosed.

Any ideas?

Brett

Damien_Buttler

I tried using your anchors and found that any characters after the '#' are not recieved. How are you using these variables? Maybe we need to see some code.

Damien.

jthomas

shouldn't the anchor be put before the passed parameters?

http://somedomain.com/text.php#search?what=3&num=4

Norman_Graham

Yeah, I think jthomas might be right about that - first the named anchor and then the variables. Sorry, can't test it on this machine.

Norman

brett

Well I tried the suggestion with putting the anchor first, before the variables and that made things worse. The php would not come up at all, only the html part of the page.

I don't know if this makes a difference but one of the variables is to switch on a case.

Here is the link that is passing the variables in the php. Keep in mind this is a snippet out of a pile of code, thus no echo statements or closing tags ";"

<a href=\"employment.php?what=view&jobNum=" . $jobNum . "#search\" target=\"_self\">&nbsp;" . $jobNam . "</a></font></td>

In this link, the anchor does not work. However in the next link, the anchor works. Both these links are on the same page.

echo "<font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><a href=\"employment.php?what=list#search\">Back To List</a></font>";

Here is another dumb thing I noticed. On a different search page that I have, the anchor is working with two variables. Basicly the same variables. I don't get it... I am stumped.