Hash symbol in URL causes a problem

As CroNiX mentioned, this is most likely an issue with how you are handling your input.

In most cases, the # will not be included in the value checked against permitted_uri_chars (especially when the # is after the last slash in the URI), because the URI is passed through PHP's parse_url() function and the path and query portions are extracted, which do not include the #.

The actual database error (or at least the relevant part of it) would probably help determine what is happening, as I can't be sure whether you're receiving no input or receiving '#' as an input.

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