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Grab Subdomain From Url

Grab Subdomain From Url

Use this block of code to grab the subdomain from the URL. You can then use it in any part of your code.

This requires your host to have: #ServerAlias *.domain.com in the .htaccess file of in the config of Apache otherwise Apache just redirects to a domain name.

<?php

// Whether or not to output debug code
//DEFINE("DEBUG", 1);
DEFINE("DEBUG", 0);

// An array of actual subdomains on the server
$real_subdomains = array('subdomain1','subdomain2');

// The domain info for this site
$domain_name = 'domain';
$domain_tld = '.com';

// Set a variable to hold the host info
$host_info = '';

// Check to see if 'register_globals' is on
if(ini_set('register_globals' == 1))
	{
	$host_info = $HTTP_HOST;
	}
else
	{
	$host_info = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
	}

// Break up the pieces of the host info
$parts = explode(".", $host_info);

// Pull the 'subdomain' for the url
$subdomain = $parts[0];

(DEBUG) ? print "Host Info: " . $host_info : '';

// Check that the subdomain isn't 'www' or the domain name
if(($subdomain != "www") && ($subdomain != $domain_name))
	{
	// Is the subdomain a real domain?
	if(in_array($subdomain, $real_subdomains))
	{
	// Redirect and exit
	header("Location: http://www." . $domain_name . $domain_tld . "/" . $subdomain . "/");
	exit();
	}
	else
	{
	header("Location: http://www." . $domain_name . $domain_tld . "/");
	}
	}

?>

The above code has been commented for easy use. This will work if "register_globals" is on or off.

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Comments: Grab Subdomain From Url

Jhecht Sun Jun 10, 2007 5:54 pm

I did this function a bit backwards. I would have a subdomain, but i wanted to get the base domain from the subdomain. I came up with this simple function :

function find_base_domain($url=false){
if($url== false){
$url = (@is_array($_SERVER)) ? $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] : ((@is_array($HTTP_SERVER_VARS)) ? $HTTP_SERVER_VARS['SERVER_NAME'] : $SERVER_NAME );
//If $_SERVER is an array, give the server name, if $HTTP_SERVER_VARS is an array, give the server name from that, if not, then just use the old old $SERVER_NAME variable;
}
//Continue with the rest of the function;
$url = str_replace("http://","",$url);
$domainExt = substr($url,strrpos($url,"."));

$domain = substr($url,0,strrpos($url,"."));

if(strstr($domain,".")){
$base_domain = substr($domain,strrpos($domain,".")+1);
}else{
$base_domain = $domain;
}
return $base_domain.$domainExt;

}

I plan on making it so it takes another argument, being $level, which says how many levels back you want to go(since some sites have subdomain1.subdomain2.domain.com and so on(like yahoo) ).

mkeefe Mon Jun 11, 2007 3:01 am

That is a very useful function, do you mind if I post it in the forum resources with full credit given?

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