how would I route url with and anchor to a specific controller in laravel

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I've inherited a site which uses JSON and uses hashes to expand boxes. Which is causing me an issue when I am creating shares.

I can create an end-point url and that works fine except the way the site is written it pulls in the data in a different fashion.

only Google has this issue because you can only give it a share url to get the information.

I've been trying to figure out how to parse a laravel rout to a controller when the posted url looks like this.

http://somesite.com/#gen/mag/aritcle-name/

the part I want to catch is just the - #gen

these do not work, however I imagine there is some kind of escape I have to do...

Route::get('/#gen/mag/', array('uses'=>'content@helloworld'));
Route::get('#gen/mag/', array('uses'=>'content@helloworld'));
Route::get('/\#gen/mag/', array('uses'=>'content@helloworld'));
Route::get('/[#gen]/mag/', array('uses'=>'content@helloworld'));
Route::get('/[\#gen]/mag/', array('uses'=>'content@helloworld'));
Route::get('/(#gen)/mag/', array('uses'=>'content@helloworld'));
Route::get('/(\#gen)/mag/', array('uses'=>'content@helloworld'));

any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Andi

This might help http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4960513/using-a-hash-within-a-url-path — Angad Dubey, Mar 31 '16 at 00:33

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 31 '16 at 05:26

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The browser won't send anything after a # in the end of the url. This can only be handled in javascript:

var hashContent = window.location.hash;

answered Mar 31 '16 at 05:26

Lance Pioch

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Hi there, I thought so and that's why I couldn't find any documentation to do this server side. It was worth asking in case anyone had found a way round it. – user1712691 Mar 31 '16 at 07:50
Thanks again for your answer. – user1712691 Mar 31 '16 at 07:51

how would I route url with and anchor to a specific controller in laravel

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