[theme-reviewers] What/Why Is This in a Footer Copyright Statement?

[Chip Bennett]

I bet you're right! :)

I didn't install it, so I didn't get to see how it looks with my domain
name. Regardless, there's no reason to use this method, when bloginfo()
would suffice.

Thanks!

Chip

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Jerry Johnson <jmiloj at gmail.com> wrote:

> HTTP_HOST is what the client/user asked for as the target host of that
> request.
>
> So for most sites, it would return the _requested domain name_ from the
> url.
>
> So, a page at http://www.yourdomain.com/about-us would return:
>
> Copyright 2010 yourdomain.com
>
> (it is stripping out the first 4 chars, assuming the domain starts with
> www., and that part should be stripped off.)
>
> I bet it works _perfectly_ on the site(s) it was created for.
>
> Jerry Milo Johnson
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:
>
>> Found this in another Theme:
>>
>> Copyright <?php echo date('Y') . ' ' . substr($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'], 4, 100); ?>
>>
>> I don't know what it's trying to do, other than pull something out of the
>> HTTP header...
>>
>>
>>
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