Magento - Fetch current domain and not base domain

Question

We are running one Magento install over multiple domains and are using a script to fetch information from the database to help users filter the products.

In our coding we have the $_SERVER function calling the store which seems to be store 1 (which is on domain 1), I was wondering what I would need to change to fetch the information from store 2 (which is on domain 2).

Answer 1

echo Mage::getBaseUrl (); 

will return the Store url only i.e. abc.com/store1.

In order to get the Main store URL (domain name), use the following code

echo Mage::getBaseUrl (Mage_Core_Model_Store::URL_TYPE_WEB); 

OR

you can get the current domain by the $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];

Answer 2

Be aware that $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] is not available on Magento scheduler (cron) tasks (unless you put some effort on it) - just realised that today