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

[Chip Bennett]

Isn't it more usual to list the Site Name, rather than URL, in such
copyright statements? In any case, both bloginfo( 'name' ) and site_url()
would be preferable to what was used...

Chip

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Edward Caissie <edward.caissie at gmail.com>wrote:

> 'site_url()' would work even better in my mind ... they can even test with
> 'is_ssl()' if need be.
>
>
> Cais.
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:
>
>> 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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