using parameter passing and anchor

[Amrita]

Hello everyone,

I am very new to PHP and I ran into a problem and I don't know how to solve... I want to pass in the anchor id and the parameter value to the next page through the URL, but I can't figure out the way to do it, and I am not sure if it is even doable


firstPage.php:

...
<a href="secondPage.php#menu?name=bob">link</a>
...

secondPage.php:

...
<div id="menu">...</div>
...
<?php print $_GET['name']; ?>

the second page doesn't receive the $_GET['name'] variable, if i print the value, it prints nothing.
I am thinking the reason may be the anchor tag, and php interpreter interprets everything after the # is the id of the anchor. Is there anyway to escape the anchor in front of the '?'? Thanks.

[NogDog]

The anchor should come last, after the URL query string:

<a href="secondPage.php?name=bob#menu">link</a>

[Amrita]

thanks