How to obtain anchor part of URL after # in php

Question

While using LightBox mechanism in my project I got an URL http://nhs/search-panel.php#?patientid=2 I need to collect that patientid from this through GET mechanism, Is that possible in PHP?

Answer 1

Simply put: you can't! Browsers don't send the fragment (the part of the URL after the hashmark) in their requests to the server. You must rely on some client-side javascript: perhaps you can rewrite the url before using it.