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Jun 18.2011

Hi,

I have a site that is a course. It is becoming fairly successful. I’d like to sell the course to other organisations. What I would like to be able to do is change the branding of the site ( really this is just a header ) so that the organisations branding appeared rather than the default branding.

For instance, if the course is at course.com, I would like to be able to use an alternative address, perhaps a subdomain, for each organisation. When that address is used the branding is appropriate to the organisation.

So, what I thought was that I would set up sub-domains for each organisation. Like organisation.course.com. Then do some htacess cleverness. And probably set a session variable so that the branding was set dependent on that variable.

Does this make sense? Is there a better way of doing this? Can anyone give me some advice? Has anyone done anything similar?

The site is php based and I am happy programming in php.

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@savvykmsJun 22.2011 — You can use .var files in Apache mixed with .htaccess files to set environment variables accessible through PHP. I did this to provide different content based on language using PHP. Perhaps there is something you can do with that? A simple thing would be to check the refererer or other information about the URL using $_SERVER and $_ENV.
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@niccolauthorJun 22.2011 — thanks savvykms

hadn't thought about .var so thanks for that.


the problem with using referrer is that the urls need to be distributed and I am not sure how bookmarking is going to work.


Thanks again
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