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[eluser]Dave Stewart[/eluser]
[quote author="xwero" date="1214417211"]If you are talking about developer and live server...[/quote]

Yup - that's what I'm talking about. For me there's usually 3 servers:

- development server (localhost)
- staging sever
- live server

So a switch/case or an associative array usually works best.

Also, apart from the base_url there's also the application paths to consider (if they have to be absolute as you said)

Case closed

By the way, what did you mean by $_SERVER vars (in this case $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']) can be manipulated? By whom, and to what end?
Cheers,
Dave