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I am trying to find the best way to have a DIV be hidden if the url is something. For example I have 2 sites using the same template but only 1 of those sites I want to display something.

So site A is domain.com Site B is site.domain.com

I want it so if site.domain.com is where people are at then do not show DIV ID="hide". I also need it to have this work for not just that specific URL but for anything that comes after it so site.domain.com/aboutus.php, site.domain.com/contact.php etc....

I would like to do this with PHP or JS.

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PLEASE NOTE: You will need to do this with PHP if the DIV needs to be hidden for security purposes. If you are hiding the DIV for usability reasons, JS will suffice. – JSK NS Sep 19 '12 at 18:44
But these are two separate sites, running on separate databases, correct? The only common thing is the template? – relentless Sep 19 '12 at 18:45

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Just check HTTP_HOST:

<?php
    if($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] != 'site.domain.com'){
        echo '<div>contents</div>'; // display div, he is not on site.domain.com
    }
?>
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PERFECT THank you! – user1683991 Sep 19 '12 at 19:11
up vote 1 down vote

You can probably do something like:

<php if($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] == 'example.com'): ?>
<div>This is example.com</div>
<?php else: ?>
<div>This is NOT example.com</div>
<?php endif; ?>

But I think you'd really be better off creating some sort of site1_settings.php that gets included on every page in one site, and then site2_settings.php that gets included in the second. For one thing, this will make it much easier to test your code locally.

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I usually use strpos for this.

if(strpos($_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"], "site") !== FALSE)
{
  // The user is on site.domain.com
}
else
{
  // The user is on domain.com
}
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Here would be my javascript implementation. Note: jQuery

if(window.location.indexOf("textinurl"))
{
    $('#DivId').hide();

}
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Why use jQuery, when a simple document.getElementById('DivId').style.display = 'none'; would do just as well? – David Thomas Sep 19 '12 at 18:48
Either way works. jQuery is great for clean code and extensibility. If all OP ever needs to do with this code block is hide the div, you're correct. – JSK NS Sep 19 '12 at 18:49

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