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

[Edward Caissie]

site_url() would return the information I suspect the author is trying to
work with; although I agree bloginfo( 'name' ) would be the much more common
and expected function to see in its place.


Cais.

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:

> 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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