Create subdomains on the fly with .htaccess (PHP)

Question

I am looking to create a system which on signup will create a subdomain on my website for the users account area.

e.g. johndoe.website.com

I think it would

Answer 1

I found it easier doing it with PHP. In fact is creating a subdomain within cPanel and create your folder under the desired domain name. As you will do it manually in cPanel but all it's done in milliseconds by a simple PHP function. No click necessary :)

function create_subdomain($subDomain,$cPanelUser,$cPanelPass,$rootDomain) {

    //  $buildRequest = "/frontend/x3/subdomain/doaffffdomain.html?rootdomain=" . $rootDomain . "&domain=" . $subDomain;

    $buildRequest = "/frontend/x3/subdomain/doaffffdomain.html?rootdomain=" . $rootDomain . "&domain=" . $subDomain . "&dir=public_html/subdomains/" . $subDomain;

    $openSocket = fsockopen('localhost',2082);
    if(!$openSocket) {
        return "Socket error";
        exit();
    }

    $authString = $cPanelUser . ":" . $cPanelPass;
    $authPass = base64_encode($authString);
    $buildHeaders  = "GET " . $buildRequest ."\r\n";
    $buildHeaders .= "HTTP/1.0\r\n";
    $buildHeaders .= "Host:localhost\r\n";
    $buildHeaders .= "Authorization: Basic " . $authPass . "\r\n";
    $buildHeaders .= "\r\n";

    fputs($openSocket, $buildHeaders);
        while(!feof($openSocket)) {
           fgets($openSocket,128);
        }
    fclose($openSocket);

    $newDomain = "http://" . $subDomain . "." . $rootDomain . "/";

   //  return "Created subdomain $newDomain";

}

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