Wordpress - remove #! characters from URL - php

Question

The question seems to be easy but after 3 days of searches I gave up. I thought that I will find it here and it seems to have similar ones but it doesn't work for this stuff.
Currently I have a customer that has a really advanced marketing based on his previos JS/AJAX driven website. All the back link to his website is like
SERVER /#! LINK
I have built a wordpress website and I need so that cross links open pages properly.
But if I get this link
SERVER /#! LINK
I get following URL when Wordpress process it
SERVER /
I have explored that the only way, or at least the only I know is to do it with wordpress but that doesn't seems to be easy.
I have following script that can ADD #! but is need to remove (just found it somewhere)
<?php
$webSiteUrl = get_bloginfo('url')."/";
$pageURL = 'http';
if ($_SERVER["HTTPS"] == "on") {
$pageURL .= "s";
};
$pageURL .= "://";
if ($_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"] != "80") {
$pageURL .= $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].":".$_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
} else {
$pageURL .= $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
};
if($webSiteUrl!=$pageURL){
$pageHash = substr($pageURL, strlen($webSiteUrl), strlen($pageURL));
header("location:".$webSiteUrl."#!/".$pageHash."");
exit;
};
?>
Thanks to squeamish ossifrage I am almost there.
I used this script as the one you provided had some issues with condition
if ('' !== window.location.hash && '#!' !== window.location.hash) {
hash = location.hash.match(/^#!(.*)/)[1];
/* ... do something with hash, like redirecting to */
/* another page, or loading page content via AJAX. */
/* If all you want to do is remove everything from */
/* the URL starting with `#!', then try this: */
location.href = location.protocol+'//'+location.host+location.pathname;
}
It seems to work but I get root page.
e.g. I open
myweb.com/#!thisone
and I get
myweb.com/
AND JUST TO SUMMARIZE so somebody can save lots of time - working script is
if ('' !== window.location.hash && '!' !== window.location.hash) {
hash = location.hash.match(/^#!(.*)/)[1];
/* ... do something with hash, like redirecting to */
/* another page, or loading page content via AJAX. */
/* If all you want to do is remove everything from */
/* the URL starting with `#!', then try this: */
location.href = location.protocol+'//'+location.host+location.pathname+'/'+hash;
}

Answer 1

You can't do this in PHP because the the server will never see the fragment part of the URL (i.e., the # symbol and everything that follows it).
You'll have to use client-side Javascript instead. Something like this perhaps:
if /^#!/.test(location.hash) {
hash = location.hash.match(/^#!(.*)/)[1];
/* ... do something with hash, like redirecting to */
/* another page, or loading page content via AJAX. */
/* If all you want to do is remove everything from */
/* the URL starting with `#!', then try this: */
location.href = location.protocol+'//'+location.host+location.pathname;
}
EDIT: If I understand correctly, you want to put the hash value at the end of the redirect URL. That's quite easily done. Just change the penultimate line of the above code to
`location.href = location.protocol+'//'+location.host+location.pathname+'/'+hash;`
The additional '/' may be unnecessary; I'll leave you to figure out the details :-)