How would I test/compare the Address Bar text ?

[reman]

Hello All!

How would I test/compare the Address Bar text so that I can forward the user based on its value? Okay, I know that does not make sense.

I have a domain that points to a main domain. When the user arrives at the main domain the address bar actually reads the original domain name. I would like to point the original domain to a sub directory inside of the main domain but my provider told me they cannot do that.

So I thought I could test that text and redirect based upon the info.

Domain 1 -------> main domain/domain1
Domain 2 -------> main domain/domain2
Domain 3 -------> main domain/domain3

[Anarchos]

location.href contains the url of the page, so do some if statements on it.

[reman]

Originally posted by Anarchos
location.href contains the url of the page, so do some if statements on it.

Sounds great but I am new to this and I am not sure how you code the location.href part.

Also, does location.href return the address bar or the real location?

[Slade]

I use this code:

$hn = strtolower(getenv("HTTP_HOST"));

switch($hn)
{
   case "firstdomain.com":
   case "www.firstdomain.com":
      $hostname = "First Domain";
      include("../texts/firstdomain.txt");
      break;

   case "seconddomain.com":
   case "www.seconddomain.com":
      $hostname = "Second Domain";
      include("../texts/seconddomain.txt");
      break;

   default:
      $hostname = "Unknown - Where Are you?";
      include("../texts/index.txt");

} 

[reman]

PHP... hmmm, never used it before. I will try it out.

What is the advantage of PHP versus Javascript?

[Slade]

Hmm... javascript versus PHP

I would say that one plus is the PHP code is processed before it ever gets to the user.

Note: The way I wrote that code "../texts/domain.txt" the texts directory is on the same level as your www dir, not in the www dir. (This is to keep people from poking around in it.)