Pass $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] to another server.

I not that good with php but I know a little bit.

There maybe another way of doing this so I'm open for suggestions.

Basically what I'm trying to achieve is a universal footer to be displayed across several sites on different servers..

So in the footer of each site;

include 'http://home_server.com/copyright/copyright.php';

PHP:

In copyright.php is a straight forward copyright statement.

Also there is another include for web stats;

define('SITE_ID', $stats_id);
include_once('http://home_server.com/Web-Stats/webstats.php');

PHP:

Now, $stats_id is the id of the site, used for logging.

if ($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] == 'www.SITE_1.com' or $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] == 'SITE_1.com') {
$stats_id = 1; 
};

if ($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] == 'www.SITE_2.com' or $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] == 'SITE_2.com') {
$stats_id = 2; 
};

PHP:

Ok, so when I go to SITE_1.com, $stats_id should be 1 and when I go to SITE_2.com $stats_id should be 2.

Wrong.

So what I did was put this in copyright.php;

echo $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];

PHP:

When I call SITE_1.com or SITE_2.com it displays home_server.com.

So tried something else. I put this above the include copyright.php code;

$URL = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];

PHP:

Then echo'd $URL in copyright.php and called SITE_1.com...nothing

Right, so next I tried putting this at the top of copyright.php and called SITE_1.com again;

$URL = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
echo $URL;

PHP:

This output; home_server.com.

How could I fix this?

Thanks.

 

It is possible that you are visiting http://site1.com and not http://www.site1.com

The variable $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] will include the www. if it is used, and it won't if it's not used. You could try this:

$host = ( substr($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'], 0, 4) == 'www.' ) ? substr(strstr($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'], '.'), 1) : $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];

PHP:

and then compare it to your websites site1.com and site2.com

 

Yeah I did try that. I think I have found a solution;

footer.php

$var = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
include("http://home_server.com/copyright/copyright.php?var=".$var);

PHP:

And then simply echo $var in copyright.php

Still need to test it fully. But thanks for you help!

2 whole days I have spent fiddling with this code. I had tried sessions, cookies, post, in about a billion different combos. Then I look at this code and think...wow!

 

We've all had experiences like that ^^ Glad you figured it out