Get current Wordpress page then add #post ID to the end

Question

I'm trying to find out the PHP code that will get the current URL and add a hash ID onto the end of it so a link can be generated and linked to.

The end goal is to create a link that returns: http://mydomain.com/news#postID-123. This should a) take users to the news page and b) jump to the part of the news page where the post ID of 123 is displayed.

Ideally I need a solution that can handle pagination within Wordpress, this is my code to get the curent page URL that I spotted on another thread but how do I create a new string from it?

<?php
$Path=$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$URI= get_bloginfo('url').$Path; // get the current web address for my WP site
?>

Answer 1

Your answer should return: `` so from there you just do this:

$final_url = $URI.'#'.get_the_ID();

Which should echo http://mydomain.com/current/page#372 which is kinda good for linking. But if your looking for a "bookmarks" link it would be best practice to do this (inside the loop):

echo '<a href="'.the_permalink().'" title="'.the_title().'">'.the_title.'</a>';

Which will echo "Interesting Page" (note the title attribute gets stripped by the SE engine)

Answer 2

Try this:

$jump_url = sprintf ('%s#PostID-%s', site_url('/news'), get_the_ID() );

Pagination is trickier. For any given post, you'd have to figure out what page it renders on each time you generate this link.